Letter 1232

[fol. 126] Sir The great civility you have often expressed by inserting some of my Mathematical Tracts into the philosophical Transactions, does make me presume to beg the favour of you to do the same with this inlclos’d. I desire you would not shew it to any person privately, except to Sr Isaac Newton, to whom I have written a letter acquainting him that such a thing is in your hands & desiring that he would be pleas’d to examine it before you produce it at a meeting of the Member of the R. S. And because it is design’d to obviate Mr Bernoulli’s objections against my solution to his problem) printed in the phil: Trans: of Jan: 1704; therefore I earnestly intreate you that (if it be judg’d worthy of its room in the Trans:) it may be published in the Transaction for this present month; I have good reason (which I need not trouble you with) for being so pressing to have it speedily printed, & hoping you will answer my earnest request I remain with great sincerity Sir your most humble & obliged servant Jo: Craig Gillingham 3 April: 1708