Well, but, my dear Mr. B. you will, perhaps, think from my last rambling Letter, that I am most inclin’d to a School Education for your Billy, some Years hence, if it shall please God to spare him to us. But indeed I cannot say, that I am: I only lay several things together in my usual indigested and roving way, to take your Opinion upon, which, as it ought, will be always decisive with me. And indeed I am so throughly convinc’d by Mr. Locke's Reasons, where the Behaviour of Servants can be so well answer’d for, as that of yours can be, where the Example of the Parents will be, as I hope, rather edifying than otherwise, that, without being sway’d, as I think, by maternal Fondness, in this Case, I must needs give a Preference to the Home Education; and the little Scheme I presum’d to form in my last, was only, as you will be pleas’d to remember, on a Supposition, that those necessary Points could not be so well secur’d.

In my Observations on this Head, I shall take the Liberty, Sir, in one or two Particulars, a little to differ from an Author, that I admire exceedingly; and that is the present Design of my writing these Letters; for I shall hereafter, if God spare my Life, in my little Book, (when you have kindly decided upon the Points in which I presume to differ from that Gentleman) shew you, Sir, my great Reverence and Esteem for him; and shall then be able to let you know all my Sentiments on this important Subject, and that more undoubtingly, as I shall be more improv’d by Years, and your dear Conversation; especially, Sir, if I have the Honour and Happiness of a foreign Tour with you, of which you give me Hope; so much are you pleas’d with the Delight I take in these improving Excursions, which you have now favour’d me with, at times, thro’ more than half the Kingdom.

Well then, Sir, I will proceed to consider a little more particularly the Subject of an Home Education, with an Eye to those Difficulties, which Mr. Locke takes notice of, as I have mention’d in my last.