Having at length been persuaded to build two Houses, this Year, I wrote to you sometime since requesting you to put your self in Cash for me by selling my Actions of the Caisse d’esccompte; and I have since drawn on you two Bills for Two hundred and Fifty Pounds Sterling cash, dated the 29th and the 30th of July last,

both Setts in favour of the same Person Mr. Meade Merchant of this City, and payable in London at 40 days sight, which I make no doubt will be duly honoured. I must continue to draw from time to time as my Buildings go on, and I request you would keep me advis’d of the Payment that I may continually see how our Account goes on. I bespoke before I left France some Printing Letters of Mr. Didot, they are for Benjamin. If ready I request you would pay for them, and ship them for me by the first convenient Opportunity. I do not know the Amount. I wish you to buy for me also the Marquis de Chastellunx’s Voyages in America. I am much in Arrear with my Friends in France on the Score of Correspondence, But by the first Ship going from hence thither, I will endeavour to clear my Accounts. This goes via New York. My Family continues on good Health, Thanks to God: Those you know of us join in best Wishes of Prosperity to you and yours; and I am ever, my dear Friend, Yours most affectionately