1746 November 28 (Friday). Sir Williams bought my Volume of the works of the author of the whole Duty of Man for 8£, and he had my Dr. Clark’s Letters to Mr. Dodwell[1] for Dr. Watts Sermon. He return’d to Sudbury. Mr. Jenison came over from the Northside to keep School in the middle of the Town.
[1]Samuel Clarke, D.D., A Defense of an Argument made use of in a Letter [by Dr. Clarke] to Mr. Dodwel, to Prove the Immateriality and Natural Immortality of the Soul (London, 1707). There followed an exchange of views in a series of pamphlets by Clarke and Henry Dodwell (1641-1711).