Autograph letter signed : The Lodge [Weston], to Samuel Rose, 1789 July 23.

Emphasizing the importance of applying yourself in your youth: "the colour of our whole life is generally such as the three or four first years, in which we are our own masters, make it. Then it is that we may be said to shape our own destiny, and to treasure up for ourselves a series of future successes or disappointments"; lamenting the years he wasted "in an attorney's office" and "in the Temple"; discussing Rose's plan to visit Weston in August; commenting on the rainy weather, and noting that the "present wet weather ... will certainly cause a great dearth, if not a famine"; mentioning shared acquaintances.