To the author of the New England Courant,

I am very much aware of the affects that any one Person's thoughts may have upon the Publick. Especially when brought to the Attention of many people, writings can be disagreeable and to a Certain Person. I, indeed not Anyone, has the ability to please All people while presenting one's own ideas. The various ways in which one thinks, cannot and will not, be the same for every Person. Some Certain idea may be pleasant to one individual, but then repulsive to Another. He who writes to All peoples intending to make them agree, will not Succeed in such ways of persuasion. One needs to have strong feeling and Connexion to whichever they will write of. The Writers and Thinkers alike will, at some Turn, have some Thought which is pleasing to some Person which opposed other thoughts. The One who will seek the approving of All peoples will in Turn be the One who does not teach a thing and in return, does not learn a thing.

From my Youth, I have been benevolently Studious to endeavor myself for a Better and more desirable Mind, as well as Knowledge, and to Understand more capably all things I Want. What I desire by this letter, is for some One or some Ones in the Publick to benefit from my small Stock of Knowledge. And, in Some Manner, be useful to many Minds in return.

Silence Dogood