An answer is due to you for your very obliging letter. I do warmly sympathise in all its contents.
I am most happy to learn that you have written to Corfu and to Malta, requesting that Bibles may be sent to Greece. Should they arrive within two months, I should be glad to have some sent to the seat of the Greek government. After that, I shall be on my way back to England. One of our mechanics of the Arsenal brought with him five hundred New Testaments. I desired him to deliver them out with extreme caution. He, at my recommendation, placed fifty of them at the disposal of Dr. Meyer, who had promised me to distribute them to the most influential, who could read them in the villages and churches.
You are very good in taking such efficient measures to
establish Lancasterian schools in Greece. All we require is, three or four good
schoolmasters, with whom I
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I wish it were possible to obtain some of the works that Mr. S. Wilson has translated. I have written to him, but have received no answer.
I wish you could establish at Cephalonia* a good Lancasterian school for the supply of schoolmasters. This measure, united with a school-book society, is what is most wanted; but nothing can be done without Bibles in the mother tongue.
I intend to depart from this in about a week, for the purpose of proceeding and remaining for a time at the seat of the government. There I shall at all times be happy to receive your commands and instructions.
Our dispensary succeeds beyond all our expectation.
It is maintained by the rich, who pay nothing for advice, and but a moderate price for their medicines.
P. S. I wish you could get the enlightened and excellent Lord Guildford to take an active part in the promotion of our schools.
