(At Hingham) Cohasset the May the 21st. 1750 Sr.,

With Pleasure I receivd yours of the 8th. Inst.1(on the 12th) & am obligd to you for the same & heartily rejoice at your Prosperity, that from a Land of Bitterness, surrounded with Thorns & Briars, you are remov'd to Canaan a Land of Pleasantness, & freindly to the Muses. Reflecting upon the Phenephilenik, I am agreably surprisd, to behold what Prosperity the greater Part of it meets with, You Lieunt. General of the Grammar Army in Boston, Father Dodge this Week to ascend the Rostrum & recieve Imposition of Hands &c. Thurston only waiting for a second Imposition (alias an Establishment) & then two H-y F-t-s2 (for us). That you may be serviceable in your Station, & gain the Applause of the great Arbiter of Heaven & of all around you Is the sincere Wish of your Friend & Humble Servant who is at present In Health & hopes these will find you so,

COTTON TUFTS

(P.S. In Haste & hope you excuse the Nonsense.) My Residence is in a Part of Hingham calld Cohasset, My School is small not exceeding 20. But wish I had a few of your Romanists alias Grammarians having none but Accidentials at Present.3

RC ; addressed: "For Mr. Robert Treat Paine att Boston"; endorsed.

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Not located.

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Holy Fathers.

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Apparently Tufts had only beginners and no advanced students in his Latin class.