A letter to the author of the pamphlet called An answer [sic] to the…A letter to the author of the pamphlet called An answeer [sic] to the…

And what, Rev. Sir, can be your Design in suggesting that Mr. W—ms of Hatfield ignorantly signed to a Letter drawn up by some Body else, and so that the Mistake that it went upon was none of his, tho' he signed it; but the Mistake of his Amanuensis; and telling that the Body of the Letter is written by another Hand, and only signed with his own, and superscribed by Mr. Williams of Long-Meadow, unless it be to insinuate that the Letter was none of his, and that other People that got about him dealt with him as a Child, and drew up a Letter, out of their own Heads, and persuaded him to subscribe it, that it might be honoured with his Name, without his knowing what it was? And is this your rising up before the hoary Head, as you profess to do in your Letter to the same reverend and aged Gentleman, Page 56? Mr. Williams of Hatfield wrote that Letter with his own Hand, before ever Mr. Williams of Long-Meadow saw Mr. Cooper's Letter to him, and got it transcribed, it being very difficult to r••d his Writing; the Letter lay by him waiting for an Opportunity to be sent; Mr. Williams of Long-Meadow informed him that there would ⟨p. 47⟩be an Opportunity to send from Springfield in a few Days; he sealed it and delivered it to him to superscribe, and send it along.

And what, Rev. Sir, can be your Design in suggesting that Mr. W—ms of Hatfield ignorantly signed to a Letter drawn up by some Body else, and so that the Mistake that it went upon was none of his, tho' he signed it; but the Mistake of his Amanuensis; and telling that the Body of the Letter is written by another Hand, and only signed with his own, and superscribed by Mr. Williams of Long-Meadow, unless it be to insinuate that the Letter was none of his, and that other People that got about him dealt with him as a Child, and drew up a Letter, out of their own Heads, and perswaded him to subscribe it, that it might be honoured with his Name, without his knowing what it was? And is this your rising up before the hoary Head, as you profess to do in your Letter to the same reverend and aged Gentleman, Page 56? Mr. Williams of Hatfield wrote that Letter with his own Hand, before ever Mr. Williams of Long-Meadow saw Mr. Cooper's Letter to him, and got it transcribed, it being very difficult to r••d his Writing; the Letter lay by him waiting for an Opportunity to be sent; Mr. Williams of Long-Meadow informed him that there would ⟨p. 47⟩