had a high respect) kept himselfe to geometrie, he had been the best
geometer in the world; but he could not pardon him for his writing in
defence of transubstantiation, which he knew was absolutely against
his opinion[1553] and donne meerly to putt a compliment[1554] <on> the
Jesuites.
[1555]I have heard Mr. Oates say that the Jesuites doe much glorie that
he <Des Cartes> had his education under[1556] them. 'Tis not unlikely
that the Jesuites putt him upon that treatise.
_Edmund Waller_[1557], esq., poet.
[1558]_Sir Kenelm Digby_, amicus T. H.
[1559](1648 or 49[1560], at Paris.) _Sir William Petty_ (of
Ireland[1561]), Regiae Societatis Socius, a person[1562] of a
stupendous invention[1563] and of as great prudence and humanity,
had an high[1564] esteeme of him. His acquaintance began at Paris,
1648 or 1649, at which time Mr. Hobbes studied Vesalius' Anatomy, and
Sir William with him. He then assisted Mr. Hobbes in draweing his
schemes[1565]for his booke of optiques, for he had a very fine hand in
those dayes for draweing[1566], which draughts Mr. Hobbes did[1567]
much commend. His facultie[1568] in this kind conciliated them the
sooner to the familiarity[1569] of our common friend.
_Mr. S. Cowper_ aforesayd[1570], at whose house they often mett.--He
drew his picture twice: the first the king haz, the other is yet in the
custody of his widowe; but he gave it, indeed, to me (and I promised I
would give it to the archives at Oxon,[1571] with a short inscription
on the back side, as a monument of his friendship to me and ours to
Mr. Hobbes--sed haec omnia inter nos)[1572]but I, like a foole, did
not take possession of it, for something of the garment was not quite
finished, and he dyed, I being then in the countrey--sed hoc non ad rem.
[1573]<_Sir William Petty._> I have a very fine letter from Mr.
Hobbes to me where he gives him thanks and for his booke of Duplicate
Proportion I sent him, which letter I will insert (so much as concerns
it). Sir William Petty would keepe the originall _honoris ergo_ and
gave me a copie of it, which I have not leisure to looke out.
[1574](At Paris.) _Mr. Abraham Cowley_, the poet, who hath bestowed on
him an immortal pindarique ode, which is in his poems.
(1651 or 52.) _William Harvey_, Dr. of Physique and Chirurgery,
inventor of the circulation of the bloud, who left him in his will
ten poundes, as his brother told me at his funerall. Obiit anno 1657,
aetat. 80, sepult. at Hempsted in Essex, in their[1575] vault.
_Mr. Edmund Waller_ of Beconsfield was his great friend, and
acquainted at Paris--I believe before.
When his Leviathan came out, he sent by his stationer's (Andrew
Crooke) man a copie of it, well-bound, to _Mr. John Selden_ in Aedibus
Carmeliticis. Mr. Selden told the servant, he did not know Mr. Hobbes,
but had heard much of his worth, and that he should be very glad to be
acquainted with him. Wherupon Mr. Hobbes wayted on him. From which time
there was a strict friendship between <them> to his dyeing day. He left
by his will to Mr. Hobbes a legacy of ten poundes.
_Sir John Vaughan_, Lord Chiefe Justice of the Common Pleas, was his
great acquaintance, to whom he made visitts three times or more in a
weeke--out of terme in the morning; in terme-time, in the afternoon.
_Sir Charles Scarborough_, M.D. (physitian to his royal highnesse
the duke of Yorke), who hath a very good and like picture (drawne
about 1655)[1576]of him, under which is this distich (they say of Mr.
Hobbes's making[CXXV.]),
[CXXV.] This was made by Sir Charles Scarborough, M.D.
Si quaeris de me, Mores inquire, sed Ille
Qui quaerit de me, forsitan alter erit;
and much loved his conversation.
_Sir Jonas Moore_, mathematicus, surveyor of his majestie's ordinance,
who had a great veneration for Mr. Hobbes, and was wont much to
lament[CXXVI.] he fell to the study of the mathematiques so late.
[CXXVI.] Does this lamenting come in aptest here, or pag.[1577] 7?--MS.
Aubr. 9, fol. 52ᵛ.
_Mr. Richard White_, who writt Hemispherium Dissectum.[1578] I have
heard Mr. Thomas Hobbes commend Richard White for a solid mathematician
and preferred him much before his brother _Thomas de Albiis_[1579] for
it.
_Sir Charles Cavendish[1580]._
_Edward, lord Herbert of Cherbery_ and Castle Island.
_Sir William Davenant_, Poet Laureat after B. Johnson, and generall of
the ordinance to the duke of Newcastle--at Paris[1581] (e.g. epistle);
perhaps before.
_William Chillingworth_, D.D.--he would commend this doctor for a very
great witt; 'But by G----' said he, 'he is like some lusty fighters
that will give a damnable back-blow now and then on their owne party.'
_George Eglionby_, D.D. and deane of Canterbury, was also his great
acquaintance. He died at Oxford[1582], 1643, of the epidemique disease
then rageing.
[1583]_Jasper Mayne_, Doctor of Divinity (chaplain to William,
marquesse of Newcastle), an old acquaintance of his.
_Mr. Francis Osburne_, author of 'Advice[1584] to a son' and severall
other treatises, was his great acquaintance.
_John Pell_, Dr. of Divinity, mathematicus, quondam professor ...[1585]
at Breda, who quotes him in his ... contra Longomontanum _de Quadratura
circuli_, for one of his jury (of 12).
_Sir George Ent_, M.D.--In a letter to Mr. J<ohn> A<ubrey> from Mr.
Thomas Hobbes:--
'Worthy Sir,
I have receaved from Mr. Crooke the booke of Sir George Ent of the Use
of Respiration. It is a very learned and ingeniose booke full of true
and deepe philosophy. I pray you to present unto him my most humble
service. Though I recieved it but three dayes since, yet, drawen-on by
the easinesse of the style and elegancy of the language, I have read it
all over, and I give you most humble thankes for sending it to me. I
pray you present my service to Mr. Hooke[1586].
I am,
Sir, your most obliged and humble servant,
THO: HOBBES.
Chatsworth,
March 25,
1679.'
_Ralph Bathurst_, S.T.D., now deane of Welles, who hath writt verses
before his booke of Humane Nature[1587].
_Mr. Henry Stubbes_, physitian, whom he much esteemed for his great
learning and parts, but at latter end Mr. Hobbs differ'd with him
for that he wrote against the lord chancellor Bacon, and the Royall
Societie. He wrote in Mr. Hobbes' defence--vide librum[1588].
_Walter Charleton_, M.D., physitian to his majestie, and one of the
Colledge of Physitians in London, a high admirer of him.
_Mr. Samuel Butler_, the author of Hudibras.
In his ... Dialogi (vide librum) he haz a noble elogie of _Sir
Christopher Wren_, then a young scholar in Oxon, which quote; but I
thinke they were not acquainted.
_Mr. <Robert> Hooke_ loved him, but was never but once in his company.
<_Sidney Godolphin_[1589].>
[1590]To conclude, he had a high esteeme for the Royall Societie,
having sayd (vide Behemoth pag. 242, part ...) that 'Naturall
Philosophy was removed from the Universities to Gresham Colledge,'
meaning the Royall Societie that meetes there; and the Royall Societie
(generally) had the like for him: and he would long since have been
ascribed a member there, but for the sake of one[CXXVII.] or two
persons, whom he tooke to be his enemies. In their meeting at Gresham
Colledge is his picture, drawen by the life, 166- (quaere date[1591]),
by a good hand, which they much esteeme, and severall copies have been
taken of it.
[CXXVII.] Dr. Wallis (surely their Mercuries[1592] are in opposition),
and Mr. Boyle. I might add Sir Paul Neile, who disobliges
everybody.--MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 53ᵛ.
[1593]Memorandum:--Dr. _Isaac Barrow_ hath mentioned Mr. T. Hobbes in
his mathematicall lectures, printed and unprinted.
[1594]Edmund Waller, esq., of Beconsfield:--'but what he was most to
<be> commended for was that he being a private person threw downe the
strongholds (ὀχυρώματα) of the Church, and lett in light.'
_Robert Stevens_, serjeant at Lawe, was wont to say of him, and
that truly, that 'no man had so much, so deeply, seriously, and
profoundly[1595] considered humane nature as he.'
[1596]Mr. John Dreyden, Poet Laureat, is his great admirer, and
oftentimes makes use of his doctrine in his playes--from Mr. Dreyden
himselfe.
[1597]Memorandum he hath no countryman living hath knowne him so long
(1633[1598]) as myselfe, or <any> of his friends, &c. <who> doth know
so much <about him.> When he had printed his translation of Thucydides
<1676: edit. 2>, his life is writt by him selfe (at my request) in the
third person, a copie wherof I have by me, [to[1599] publish after his
death if it please God I survive him.]
<_Opponents and critics._>
[1600]Now as he had these ingeniose and learned friends, and many more
(no question) that I know not or now escape my memory; so he had many
enemies (though undeserved; for he would not provoke, but if provoked,
he was sharp and bitter): and as a prophet is not esteemed in his owne
countrey, so he was more esteemed by foreigners then by his countreymen.
His chiefe antagonists were
--[_Dr.[1601] John_] _Bramhall_, bishop of [Londonderry], afterwards
[archbishop of Armagh and] primate of Ireland.
--_Seth Ward_, D.D., now bishop of Sarum, who wrote against him in his
_Vindiciae Academiarum_[1602] ἀνονυμῶς, and in.... With whom though
formerly he had some contest, for which he was sorry, yet Mr. Hobbes
had a great veneration for his[1603] worth, learning and goodnes.
--_John Wallis_, D.D., a great mathematician, and that hath deserved
exceedingly of the commonwealth of learning for the great paines
etc...., was his great antagonist in the Mathematiques. 'Twas pitty, as
is said before, that Mr. Hobbs began so late, els he would <not> have
layn so open.
'Theophilus Pike' (<i.e.> [_William_[1604]] _Lucy_, bishop of St.
David's) who wrote ['Observations, censures, and confutations of
notorious errours' in his Leviathan, 1664; they are but weak ones.]
_Mr._ [_Richard_] _Baxter_, who wrote....
[_Edward[1605] Hyde, earl of Clarendon_, who wrot against the
politicall part of his Leviathan: I have mentioned this in some letter,
but you have forgot it.]
[1606]Samuelis Siremesii; Praxiologia apodictica, seu Philosophia
moralis demonstrativa, pythanologiae Hobbianae opposita: Francofurti,
1677, 4to.
[1607](In 16mo)--Liberty and Necessity asserted by Thomas Hobbes and
opposed by _Philip Tandy_, register-accomptant, formerly minister and
now established so again, Lond. 1656.
<_Apologists and supporters._>
<A few scattered notes in MS. Aubr. 9 may be conveniently
brought together here.>
[1608]Meditationes Politicae iisdem continuandis et illustrandis addita
Politica parallela XXV dissertationibus Academicis antehac exposuit
Johannes Christopherus _Becmanus_, LL.D., editio 3ª, Francofurti
MDCLXXIX, vide pag. 417 ubi magnopere laudat T. Hobbium--which
transcribe.
[1609]In 8vo:--Meditationes Politicae iisdemque continuandis et
illustrandis addita Politica Parallela XXIV dissertationibus academicis
antehac exposuit _Johannes Christopherus Becmanus_, D. et Hist. prof.
publ. ord. in Acad. Francofurtanâ; additae sunt dissertationes de lege
regia et de quarta monarchia: editio tertia: Francofurti ad Oderam,
anno MDCLXXIX:--pag. 417, 418:--
'In Hobbesii libris eorum quae de cive et civitate agunt (nam
reliqua nobis neutiquam curatio est) _scopus generalis_ est
e primis principiis naturae rationalis ac vitae socialis res
politicas eruere (quo quidem nomine prae caeteris laudandus est
cum nemo politicorum ante illum id ausus fuerit), _specialis_
est dirigere principia sua ad monarchiam (qui si genium gentis
spectes in qua vixit non minori laude dignus est, licebitque
aliis eadem principia ad statum aristocraticum et democraticum
applicare, modo sciat istos potius quam monarchiam reipublicae
suae congruere).
In aliis scriptis quae publicavit itidem eo nomine laudandus
est quod e primis principiis moralibus, licet haud perinde
vulgò notis, res suas eruere conetur: sed rursus etiam
culpandus quod sacra ad conceptus suos trahat cum hos ad
sacra pertrahere indeque perficere debuisset. Profani tamen
qui videntur apud eum occurrere loquendi modi non possunt
plenum _atheismum_ inferre, nunquam enim qui rebus moralibus
mediocriter incumbit atheus esse potest, tanto minus Hobbesius
qui ad prima usque principia moralium progredi conatur. Quod
vero maxime sapere videtur, id vel _securitatem_ dixeris vel
_neutralismum_ quendam, ut Deum quidem colat sed modum colendi
a sacro codice derivandum esse non necessarium agnoscat;
esseque hunc animum ejus ex eo patet quod superius diximus,
ipsum sacra ad conceptus suos morales trahere cum e contrario
moralia quae habemus aut invenire etiam possumus e sacris peti
debeant quippe quae clarius semper rem exprimunt quam sine
eis exprimi potest. Acciditque hic[1610] ipsi quod chymicorum
multis aliisque rerum naturalium scrutatoribus qui, dum in
causis secundis indagandis nimii sunt, eis ita alligantur ut
ulterius eoque ad Deum usque pergere non opus esse judicent,
unde similiter in _neutralismum_ incidunt. Brevius--Hobbesius
principia vitae socialis vere explicat sed male applicat; unde
omnis illa in doctrina ejus perversitas quam tamen Christiano
vitandam esse merito cum piis probisque omnibus pronunciamus.
Concludimus cum judicio autoris Gallici in _Itiner.
Angl._[CXXVIII.] pag. (edit. Germ.) 411, 412:--
[CXXVIII.] This is in High-dutch, which I desire Mr. Th. Haack to
render into English.
[1611]Es[FX] werden sehr wenig gefunden welche die Sachen
genauer durchsehen denn Er und die der Natürlichen
Wissen-schafft eine so lange Erfahrung beygebracht hätten.
Ja Er ist ein überbliebenes von dem Bacon, unter welchem
Er in seiner Jugend geschrieben und an allem was ich von
Ihm gehöret und was ich in seiner Art zu sc<h>reiben mercke
sehe ich wol, dasz Er viel davon behalten. Er hat durch das
Studieren seine Weise die Dinge zu wenden und greiffet gerne
in die Gleichnüssen. Aber Er hat natürlich viele von seiner
schönen und guten Eigenschafft ja auch von seiner feinen
Leibes Gestalt. Er hat der Priester-schafft seines Landes,
den Mathematisten zu Oxfurt und ihren Anhänge<r>n eine Furcht
eingejaget, darumb Ihre Majestät mir Ihn einem Bähren[1612]
ver<g>l<e>ichen, wider welche Er die doggen, umb sie zu üben
anreitzet; sonder Zweiffel hat Er die gekrönte Häupter in den
Gründen seiner Welt Klugheit höchlich verbunden, und wenn Er
die Lehren der Religionen nicht berühret, oder sich begnüget
hätte d<i>e Presbyterianer und genannte Bischöffe seines Landes
anzugreiffen, find ich nichts darin zu tadeln.'
[1613]Casparis Zeigleri de juribus majestatis tractatus Academicus;
Wittenbergae, 1681. Vide pag. 112 § IV ubi honoris gratiâ citat
Hobbium de differentiis inter pactum et legem ex element. philosoph. de
Cive, cap. 14.
[1614](In 12mo)--Epistolica dissertatio de principiis justi et decori
continens Apologiam pro tractatu clarissimi Hobbaei de Cive ἀνονυμῶς
Amstelodami apud Ludovicum Elzevirium, MDCLI.
James Harrington, esquire: _Oceana_, vide.
[1615]... Zeigler, a German jurisconsultus, quotes him with great
respect, as also some other German civilians, of which enquire farther.
[1616]_Samuelis Pufendorf_: Elementa Jurisprudentiae Universalis[1617],
1672: in praefatione--
'Nec parum debere nos profitemur Thomae Hobbes, cujus
hypothesis in libro _de Cive_, etsi quid profani sapiat,
pleraque tamen caetera satis arguta ac sana.
Quos heic velut in universum allegasse voluimus, in ipso autem
opere quoties eorundem expressa fuit sententia ipsos numerare
supersedimus, quia, praeter taedia crebrae citationis, rationes
eorum potius quam autoritatem secuti sumus. Nam quando ab
iisdem atque aliis veritatis studium dissentire nos subegit,
nomina eorundem ideo dissimulavimus ne magnorum virorum naevos
vellicando gloriolam captare velle videremur. Et stultum
semper judicavimus, cum ipse te hominem noris ab erroribus
haudquidquam immunem, aspera in alios censura reliquos ad paria
tibi reponenda irritare.'
[1618]_Samuel Pufendorfius_, professor in jure naturae apud regem
Sueciae: in praefatione sui libri De Jure Naturae et Gentium,
Amstelodam, 1688:
'Sic et Thomas Hobbius in operibus suis ad civilem scientiam
spectantibus plurima habet quantivis pretii et nemo cui
rerum ejusmodi est intellectus negaverit tam profunde ipsum
societatis humanae et civilis compagem rimatum fuisse ut
pauci priorum cum ipso heic comparari queant. Et qua a vero
aberrat, occasionem tamen ad talia meditanda suggerit quae
fortasse aliàs nemini in mentem venissent. Sed quod et hic in
religione peculiaria sibi et horrida dogmata finxerit, hoc ipso
apud multos non citra rationem sui aversationem excitavit.
Quanquam et illud non raro contingere videas ut ab illis maximo
cum supercilio condemnetur abs quibus minime lectus fuit aut
intellectus.'
<_Conclusion._>
[1619]I would have, just before FINIS,
Pascitur in vivis Livor: post fata quiescit;
Tunc suus ex merito quemque tuetur honos.
Ovid. _Eleg._[1620]
[1621]Last of all insert the pindarique ode on Mr. Hobbes made by Mr.
Abraham Cowley; and after that, in the next page, the verses made by
Dr. Ralph Bathurst of Trinity College in Oxon, which are before Mr.
Hobbes's _Humane Nature_.
<_Copies of letters by, or about, Thomas Hobbes._>
i. _Thomas Hobbes to Josias Pullen._
[1622]For my much honored friend Mr. Josias Pullen, Vice-principall of
Magdalen Hall in Oxon.
Honour'd Sir,
I understand by a letter from Mr. Aubry that you desire to have the
bookes I have published to put them into the library of Magdalen Hall.
I have here sent them you, and very willingly, as being glad of the
occasion, for I assure you that I owe so much honour and respect to
that society that I would have sent them, and desired to have them
accepted, long agoe, if I could have donne it as decently as now that
you have assured me that your selfe and some others of your house have
a good opinion of them so that though the house refuse them they are
not lost. You know how much they have been decryed by Dr. Wallis and
others of the greatest sway in the University, and therfore to offer
them to any Colledge or Hall had been a greater signe of humility than
I have yet attained to.
For your owne civility in approving them, I give you many thanks; and
remain
Sir,
Your most humble servant,
THO. HOBBES.
1672[1623], London,
Febr. 1ˢᵗ.
ii. _Thomas Hobbes to John Aubrey._
[1624]Noble Sir,
I am very glad to hear you are well and continue your favours towards
me.
'Tis a long time since I have been able to write my selfe, and am now
so weake that it is a paine to me to dictate.
But yet I cannot choose but thanke you for this letter of Jan. 25ᵗʰ
which I receaved not till the last of ffebruary. I was assured a good
while since that Dr. Wallis his learning is no where esteemed but in
the Universities by such as have engaged themselves in the defence of
his geometry and are now ashamed to recant it. And I wonder not if Dr.
Wallis, or any other, that have studyed mathematicks onely to gaine
preferment, when his ignorance is discovered, convert his study to
jugling and to the gaining of a reputation of conjuring, decyphering,
and such arts[1625] as are in the booke[1626] you sent me.
As for the matter it selfe, I meane the teaching of a man borne deafe
and dumbe to speake, I thinke it impossible. But I doe not count him
deafe and indocible that can heare a word spoken as loud as is possible
at the very entrance to his eare, for of this I am assured that a man
borne absolutely deafe must of necessity be made to heare before he can
be made to speake, much lesse to understand. And he that could make him
heare (being a great and common good) would well deserve both to be
honoured and to be enriched. He that could make him speake a few words
onely deserved nothing. But he that brags of this and cannot doe it,
deserves to be whipt.
Sir, I am most heartily
Your most faithfull and most humble servant,
THOMAS HOBBES.
Hardwick,
March the 5ᵗʰ, 1677[1627].
[1628]To my most honored frend Mr. John Awbry, esqre, to be left for
him at Mr. Crooke's, a bookseller, at the Green Dragon without Temple
barre, London.
iii. _Thomas Hobbes to William Crooke_, with an enclosure to John
Aubrey.
<Hobbes' letter to Crooke is found as fol. 11 of MS. Aubr. 9:
the enclosure to Aubrey, as foll. 12, 13. Both are in James
Wheldon's handwriting.
It appears by the post-stamps on the backs of these letters
that the charge for a letter was 3_d._, with 3_d._ for each
enclosure. Thus the letters of Aug. 18, 1679, March 5, 1679/80,
Sept. 7, 1680, are all marked as costing 3_d._ postage (MS.
Aubr. 9, foll. 15ᵛ, 10ᵛ, 21ᵛ); while this letter to Crooke,
with its enclosure, cost 6_d._ (_ibid._, fol. 11ᵛ); and the
letter of Jan. 16, 1679/80, with its two enclosures, cost 9_d._
(_ibid._ fol. 17ᵛ).>
[1629]Sir,
I have receaved Sir George Ent's booke and Mr. Aubrey's letter, to
which I have written an answer, but I cannot tell how to send it to him
without your helpe, and therefore I have sent it to you here inclosed,
for I believe he comes now and then to your shop, and I pray you doe me
the favour to deliver it to him.
I rest, your humble servant
THO. HOBBES.
Chatsworth,
March the 25ᵗʰ 1679.
[1630]For Mr. William Crooke,
Bookeseller,
At the Green Dragon without Temple barr
London.
* * * * *
[1631]Worthy Sir,
I have receaved from Will: Crooke the booke of Sir George Ent of the
use of respiration. It is a very learned and ingenious booke, full of
true and deepe philosophy, and I pray you to present unto him my most
humble service. Though I receaved it but three days since, yet drawn
on by the easinesse of the style and elegance of the language I have
read it all over. And I give you most hearty thankes for sending of it
to me, and to Mr. Ent[1632] who was pleased to bestow it upon me, and
I am very glad to hear that Sir George him selfe is alive and in good
health, though I believe he is very near as old as I am.
I knew not how to addresse my letter to you, but at all adventure I
sent it inclosed in a letter to Mr. Crooke at whose shop I suppose you
sometimes looke in as you passe the street.
I pray you present my service to Mr. Hooke and thanke him for the
honour of his salutation.
I am, Sir, your most obliged and humble servant,
THOMAS HOBBES.
Chatsworth,
March the 25ᵗʰ, 1679.
[1633]To my most honoured frend,
Mr. John Aubrey.
iv. _Thomas Hobbes to John Aubrey._
[1634]Honored Sir,
I thanke you for your letter of Aug. 2ᵈ, and I pray you present my
humble thanks to Sir George Ent that he accepteth of my judgment upon
his booke. I fear it is rather his good nature then my merit. I am
sorry for the news you write of his son.
I have been told that my booke of the Civill Warr is come abroad, and
am sorry for it, especially because I could not get his majestye to
license it, not because it is ill printed or has a foolish title set to
it, for I believe that any ingenious man may understand the wickednesse
of that time, notwithstanding the errors of the presse.
The treatise _De Legibus_, at the end of it, is imperfect. I desire
Mr. Horne to pardon me that I consent not to his motion, nor shall Mr.
Crooke himselfe get my consent to print it.
I pray you present my humble service to Mr. Butler[1635].
The priviledge of stationers is (in my opinion) a very great hinderance
to the advancement of all humane learning.
I am, Sir, your very humble servant,
THO. HOBBES.
Chatsworth,
Aug. the 18ᵗʰ, 1679.
[1636]To my much honoured frend Mr. John Aubrey, at Mr. Hooke's lodging
in Gresham College, London.
v. _James Wheldon to William Crooke_, with enclosure to John Aubrey,
and a copy of Hobbes' will.
<Wheldon's letter to Crooke is found as foll. 16 and 17 of MS.
Aubr. 9; the enclosure to Aubrey, as foll. 18, 19.>
[1637]Hardwick, January the 16ᵗʰ, 1679[1638].
Sir,
Three days since I receaved your letter of the 9ᵗʰ instant together
with one from Mr. Aubrey, and because they containe both the same
particulars I thinke it unnecessary to repeat to you what I have
written back to that gentleman.