Letter from Newton to Edmund Halley, dated 14 March 1696/7
<66r>
Sr
I understand that a report has been sometime spreading among ye Fellows of ye Royal Society as if I was about ye Longitude at Sea. For putting a stop to that report pray do me the favour to acquaint them (as you have occasion) that I am not about it. And if the rumour of preferment for me in the Mint should hereafter upon the death of Mr Hoar or any other occasion be revived, I pray that you would endeavour to obviate it by acquainting your friends that I neither put in for any place in the Mint nor would meddle wth Mr Hoar's place were it offered me. You will thereby oblige
Yor most humble and
most {illeg}|o|bedient Servant
Is. Newton.
<66v>For Mr Edmund Halley at
Mr Coxall's in Packers Court
in Collman-street in
London.
