"The Trustees there make the Appointment, from whom I expect Letters by the next Ships, in which I suppose they will communicate their intentions and I shal receive very great satisfaction in giving my assistance towards the settlement of so useful a man in the province.

"I am with the greatest respect
"My Lord

"Your Grace's much obliged and most obedient humble Servt.

"T. P."

The way had been well paved for Dr. Smith's visit to Penn, as will be seen by the following letter from the latter to Mr. Peters:

"Your Letter of the 5th of June was delivered to me by Mr Smith whose Pamphlet giving an account of the Colledge of Mirania afforded me great pleasure, the subject is indeed very clearly, and masterly handled; he was recommended to me by the Archbishop of Canterbury, who sent me the Letters that had been sent to his Grace, by Mr De Lancey & some Clergymen at New York, with full Testimonials of his behaviour there; and Mr Smith brought them hither to me, and staying two Nights I had an opportunity of conversing much with him, and find from an invitation of Mr Franklins, after he left Philadelphia he intends to accept of the Office of Rector of the Academy for sometime which I suppose all the Trustees will be much pleased with,

and will write to him soon on the Subject; His Learning you are no doubt fully apprised of, and his Temper & disposition appear to be well fitted for such an undertaking, indeed a Scheme of this sort seems almost entirely to engross his thoughts, and I make no doubt he will conduct it with great reputation. I believe I shall make your Society an annual present towards his Salary 'til I think of some other method to assist, you, or to settle another School which will not be 'til I see Pennsylvania." *

On the 9th of the following March he again wrote:

"MR PETERS,

"Since I wrote you the 31st of October and acknowledged the Receipt of your Letter by Mr Smith I have frequently seen him and am very much pleased that he has accepted the offer made to him by Mr Franklin on the part of the Trustees of the Academy, and to shew my approbation of him as well as to give my assistance towards the support of the undertaking, I have agreed to give him fifty Pounds Currency a year in addition to what the Trustees settle on him for his salary. You know the situation of our affairs so well as to know whatever inclination I may have to found a school, or to assist one already established, it is not in my power to give any sum of money without doing injustice to my Family, the Interest of which

* From Penn Letter-Books, vol. iii. Letter of Thos. Penn to Mr. Peters, October 31st, 1753.

would be a support to a Master and pay for the Board & Education of two or three scholars to be named by me or my Family, this must be done by Land and I believe I shall appropriate my share of Perkassee as a part of it upon which there are I think seven Farms and which I desire you will inquire into the state of and send me the account you receive, this in time will yield a considerable Income."*

* Letter of Thomas Penn to Mr. Peters, March 9th, 1754.

CHAPTER XVIII.

DR. SMITH'S WORK IN THE ACADEMY AND COLLEGE.

HAVING been ordained deacon and priest in December, 1753, on the 5th of the following April Dr. Smith sailed for Philadelphia. Franklin and Peters were ignorant of the success he had met with. Indeed, they did not know that he had decided to accept Franklin's offer until shortly before his arrival. Thirteen days after he had sailed, Franklin wrote as follows:

"PHILADELPHIA, April 18, 1754. "DEAR SIR,-I have had but one letter from you since your arrival in England, which was but a short one, via Boston, dated October 18th, acquainting me that you had written largely by Captain Davis-Davis was lost, and with him your letters, to my great disappointment—Mesnard and Gibbon have since arrived here, and I hear nothing from you. My comfort is an imagination that you only omit writing because you

are coming, and propose to tell me everything viva voce. So not knowing whether this letter will reach you, and hoping either to see or hear from you by the 'Myrtilla,' Captain Budden's ship which is daily expected, I only add, that I am with great esteem and affection 66 Yours, etc.,

MR. SMITH.

B. FRANKLIN."

In the "Life and Correspondence of the Rev. William Smith, D.D.," by his greatgrandson, Horace Wemyss Smith, a paper is quoted which is called the "Diary of Dr. Smith." It reads as follows:

"May 22, 1754. Landed in Philadelphia. Put up at the Ton Tavern on Chestnut Street, kept by Joseph Osborn."

"24th. I was this day inducted Provost of the College and Academy of Philadelphia and Professor of Natural Philosophy."

"25th. Commenced teaching in the Philosophy class, also ethics and rhetory, to the advanced pupils. I have two classes, a senior and a junior one."

This document cannot be a contemporaneous diary, but is probably some memorandum, prepared late in life, when the exact order in which events occurred had