The Hartlib Papers

Deare Friend in our lord

I dowbt not, but befor this tyme yow have received my letters, writ to yow befor, & sent yow by Mr Rollitius, or Monsieur Morians means, wherunto I looke for some answer, what yee can doe for me in that businesse & yowr best intelligence & information concerning my place in Oxford, how I stand in relatione therto. For Mr Rollitius hath told some hint, as from yow, that another showld be put in my place; wherof I desyre to know the certaintie, & manner from yowr self; & also, that yee will be pleased to wryte to Mr Ihonesone againe, for his answer to me in my former letter, that I wrot to him, & sent to yow befor, to be convey'd to him; wherin (I hope) if he wryte, he will give me also some account, how that businesse hath gone. I cowld not befor send yow Mr Dureys papers of the kingdom, as nether yet, becaus as yet I am so farre unsetled, that I have never tooke owt my bookes owt of my truncks, & so can not gett to them: but er it be long, I hope I shall. One motive, amongst others, why I rather came to Franeker, then elswher, was for Doctor Vanderlindens caws, of whom I heard great commendatione from Mr Morian, & that by his means, the States in Frisland wer setting up a chemicall laboratorie, & thinking perhaps of some provisione for a professione therin, at least so farre, as <to> teach the students of medicine, all common [operalis?] for use in physick, which is[altered from as] all I desyred, & thowght it a singular providence, & good occasione. When I was with yow, it came not into my mynd to desyre any letters from yow to Mr Morian on my behalf; nor did yow offer any. But I find him a very learned man, & an humble & cowrteows spirit; & one, whom I much esteeme, & think that I might much better my self by, if yow will be pleased to wryte to him on my behalf, that on yowr acqwaintance, and as yowr friend, whome yow dare, & doe recommend to him, I be admitted into familiaritie, & some inwardnesse with him. The lyke I say of Mr Dureyes letters to him, to the same purpos for me; or to any other of Mr Dureys acqwaintance heer <left margin: I mean in the netherlands>, who he thinkes cowld doe me any freindly offices, withowt my being burthensome to them (which god-willing I mynd not to be) which by this letter, as written to himself, I desyre from him: & which therfor I desyre yow to communicat to him, with my brotherly love to yow both, & to all other freinds, that shall ask for me, till I can wryte to him at more [length? MS edge] [left margin:] & in a more setled conditione; which (godwilling) may be in short tyme: & in the interim to asswre yowr selves both, that I am not unmyndfwll of the relatione between us, but Sirs

                        Yowr constantly assured & loving

                         brother in the Lord

                                 William Hamiltone.

  Franeker 16. of november

    1650. after the old style.

To his much honored freind & deare

 brother Mr Hartlib at London

    neir Charine crosse   These

Mr: Hamilton & others

[word deleted]: Horne: Harris

                Hausman: Hobs,