The Letter I had the Honor of Addressing to You Some few Weeks Past reciting My Intention of Transmitting a Locket into Your Excellency’s Hands And Humbly Solliciting You to Condescend to My Request in Presenting It to His Royal Highness Le Compte D’Artois And Other Purpises therein Containd—This is with Submission to inform Your Excellency That for Some Impediments in Some of the Component Parts could not Finish it in the Time mention’d of three Weeks. It is now Done—And Propose to Forward It Tuesday next—If I cannot find any American Gentleman Who may be going to Paris in the Interim—Then—by the Common Conveyance of the Mail. And I Hope it may Arrive Safe to Your Excellencys Hands And that Your Excellency Reflecting on the Object I have in View—Will Condescendingly Officiate on My Behalf which will Confer a Lasting Obligation on One Who in the Most Perfect Truth and Sincerity Humbly Subscribes Him self Your Excellencys Faithful Humble Servant