…I have not been able to settle anything about your Affair with the Duc de Liancourt and Loiselle. I am astonish’d indeed with what you tell about Mr O.—I hope you will be able to obtain something at last: It will be much if it is equal to your Merits. My Father will deliver you a second Edition of my Grandfather’s Letter, which may assist you.—Crawford is doing nothing but magnetizing and being magnetiz’d. Dalrymple is busy; and much esteem’d: I recd my manuscript book and thank you for the additional Pieces. No Medals have been struck in America. Several have in France relative to our Affairs which may be had at Paris, at the Hotel de la Monoye des Medailles au Louvre: they are to be purchased. The story of the Apples of King John is this:—He had two Apples, of which he eat One and kept t’other for Himself.

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