Letter 0663

[fol. 121] Sr Gorde-Buildings: Jan. 8. 1700 I am ledd by some Conversation I have just now had with our learned friend ye Bearer Mr Monro to repete what I have heretofore sayd to you in relation to ye most learned & celebrated Monseignr Bellisono at Rome. His Character is soe univer- -sally knowne & honoured, that I will not soe much as suppose you a stranger to it; Only I thinke it becomeing mee to give you soe much of it as comes to mee from a Gentleman a Mem- -ber of our Owne Society, to whom hee has ex- -pressed his most reguardfull Esteem of ye same, & desire of ye Honor of his Admission there into, in Order to a Correspondence, that that Gentleman Mr Jackson tells me hee believes may bee truly usefull to ye Society; ad- -ding, that besides his known urbanity & Repectfullness- as well as Comunicativenesse to all Strangers, hee is observed to expresse himselfe to non more soe, then to ye English. On all which scores I make it my Motion & Request to ye Society by your hand (because, as you well know, ut- -terly unable at this Time to doe it perso- -nally, as I otherwise ought & should have done) that ye sayd Seignor Bellisono may bee thought worthy, & have ye Honor hee desires of being admitted into ye Number of ye Fellows ofye Royall Society. With which, & ye telling you, that I shall not fayle in my Duty of attending the service thereof,as soone as ever my Health shall enable mee to doe it, I rest Sr Your most humble Servant Pepys