I know that when I recommend a Friend to your Civilities, your Goodness esteems it a Favour. I therefore make no Difficulty of presenting to you the honourable Mr Pinckney, a Member of Congress for Carolina, and one of the late Convention which form’d the new federal Constitution for the United States, of which I have already sent you a Copy. He is a Gentleman of excellent Character, with whose Acquaintance you will be pleased. I thank you much for the Portrait of our Friend Mably. It is exceedingly like. With sincere Esteem, and grateful Remembrance of all your Kindness to me when I had the Happiness of being your Neighbour, I am,