Your Letter of the 12th. April and the articles referred to in it, arrived here in very good order: I am pleased with and thank you for both. Mrs. Jay has imbibed from these Specimens so good an opinion of your Taste as to desire me to trouble you with another little Commission: it is to send her a pair of Shoe Buckles at five or six Guineas. dont let them be too large. The size at present in Fashion being as we are told, beyond all reasonable Bounds, & proportionable only to the heel of patagonian Ladies—If so, let them be rather fashionable in Form and Figure, than in Dimensions. There you see Sir! How I take you at your Word and how your polite attention to my former orders invites me to trouble you with a new one. Mr. Fabre is not yet arrived here—he has probably been prevented from selling out so soon as you mention.

In the Letter from Col. Laurens which accompanied yours, he informs me, that on his arrival he committed some Letters for me from America to the care of Doctr Franklin—as none of them have come to my Hands, be so kind as to enquire when & by what Conveyance they were sent, & if not already done, to forward them by a private Hand or a french Courier to Count Montmorin. I am Sir with sincere Regard your most obedt Servant