Permit me to remind you of my recommendation to you by the Letters from Mess. Rasp, and Dalrymple last October, which engaged your very obliging Assurance of favouring me with a Letter or two to some of your Friends in America for their Advice upon my Arrival in that Country.

My long Absence I fear may be construed disrespect but permit me to assure you that had I not been kindly advis’d by a Friend to keep myself as close as posible on account of my necessary return to England to settle some Affairs there, I shou’d have before now have taken the Liberty of paying my best respects to you.

I mean to return for a short time only to settle my Affairs, from whence I hope to return to paris for your good Advice to proceed to America, a Country which is the highest of my Ambition to end my days in. The short time of my absence from here I shall conduct under the Advice of his Grace the Duke of Richmond, and when I leave England I mean to Embark for Holland from whence I shall once more proceed to this City, and hoping to receive your obliging and kind Advice and wishing you every blessing Heaven can bestow upon your laudable Undertaking I remain Your much oblig’d and most obedient humble Servant