As Mr Strachey is going from hence to Paris with some particulars for Mr Oswald which were not to be easily explained in writing, I take the liberty of introducing him to your acquaintance, though I am not sure that he is not already a little known to you.

The confidential situation in which he stands with me makes me particularly desirous of presenting him to you.

I believe, Sir, I am enough known to you for you to believe me when I say that there has not been from the beginning a single Person more averse to the unhappy War, or who wishes more earnestly than I do for a return of Peace and mutual Amity between Great Britain and America.

I am with great regard Sir etc