While literature in other countries is languishing for want of encouragement from the great, and leagued oppression is striving unremittedly to quench the blaze of Science, and sweep from earth all that adorns mankind; We feel an honest pride in courting the approbation of one, who, though perhaps engaged in a multiplicity of other concerns, must view with interest the daw[n]ing Splendour of our national literature. Emboldened by this consideration, 'tis with a becoming Confidence of yielding no offence, that the committee of the Franklin Society of Brown University, invite you to become an honorary member of the aforesaid Society. This Society was organized on the 4th day of July last. Its object is to improve the mind by forensic disputation, and thereby to become, in a measure, a School of eloquence. It consists of 70 Students of the University, besides many gentlemen of distinction and letters, who have approbated it by annexing their names to the list of its honorary members. It has an annual celebration and a library rapidly increasing; if you please to gratify us in the object of our wishes, we Shall feel ourselves highly flattered—Your Obt Servts