A COPY OF DOCTOR SHAW’S LETTER.
Reading edition
ON PERUSING THE ESSAY BEFORE MENTIONED.
Dear Sir,
I HAVE, with pleasure and improvement, read over your manuscript; and should be glad to see some other trades as justly reduced to rules as you have done that of brewing: which would not only be making a right application of philosophical knowledge, but, at the same time, accommodate human life, in many respects, wherein it is still deficient. Perhaps your example may excite some able men, to give us their respective trades, in the form of so many arts. For my own part, having long wished to see some attempts of this kind, for the good of society in general, I cannot but be particularly pleased with the nature, design, and execution of your essay, and am,
Dear Sir,
Your obliged Friend,
And humble Servant,
PETER SHAW.
Pall-Mall, July 20, 1758.