My dear Sir if your friendly Letter has been some time delay’d, it however afforded me so much more pleasure when it came. therefore there needs no apology on that head, I am now going to answer you most minutely, but first must say you would have made me happy by saying some thing about your Grand father’s Health for I was very much alarmed the other day at Mr. Adams, hearing he had been labouring under great pains from the Gravel: your silence I construe to be a rather favourable Omen.

First & foremost the first Paragraph of your Letter is mentioning the few Patterns & things I took the liberty of sending as a very meritorious Decit, whereas I think I should blush at your taking notice of such a trifle. The Gilets I cant say suited the Market of Taste at Paris much, but I expected to have sent other patterns, as I mean to do whenever an oppertunity occurs. They cock Hats here most admirably, pray give me leave to send you a cocked one & a flaped one. I know you’ll thank me. but I must have your measure for the Hats to fit I put down in my Memorandum the Bath wating Great coat, which is a very fashionable wear, when the Weather is but cold. Baskets Buttons are given the preference in that case. there is for great Coats but Drap Cloths & that, which are worn. I shall be expecting your Commands for Long champs I mean While I shall put you in the Way of darting Arrows at young Ladies’ Breasts which is a very pretty sort of a Passtime. raillerie a part they are pretty Pins; but lett it be said en passant that Woemen dress here like Angels. in the most neat, alluring & smart Manner, the sort of Mourning Buckles you allude to are very handsome & when in town shall be able to lett you Know the price.

I cant say that I be any Conjuror at all about pointing out the best Way of sending for your Horse from Dublin. but if I am allowed to offer a sentiment, I should say that both Accident & Expence are such que le Jeu n’en vaut pas la chandèle. Accept of my best thanks for your Kind Letter to Count D’Adhéma, it shall be delivered when this rioting party at Bath is at end. if you can, without trouble, send me one or two [?] for some of the Nobility you will much oblige me, by the Dutchess of Manchester perhaps, you could get me one for the Dutchess of Devonshire, & the Dutchess of Rutland, to whose Houses Foreigners are generaly introduced. do in that Respect for your friend what you can & what ever be the Result I shall retain a grateful sense—Lord Pembroke’s absence causes my calling in all my Out Posts & best Resources. & of course my being troublesome to my friends, as the first outset of a Man in society is almost every thing I shall be happy if you have it in your Power to assist me in that Way, to do it without loss of time; Storer if you know him can I dare say introduce me handsomely he is said to be the best Dancer in England, en qualité de confrère Amateur you know I stand a chance of his Patronage.

Leather Breeches are much worn here your Measure pray, & I shall fitt you I swear.

they wear no Buckles behind, but the way they fasten the Boots is on Ornaments. Now for a specimen of my Drawing or rather this Way that, spoke or line at which the A is pointed is a strap of the same colour & leather as the [?], which is fastened by a pretty Bead Buckle just under the Knee Buckle that it should not Slip. Je crois ma foy que Jen suis venu à mon honneur qu’en pensez vous? Woemen in this Country are beautifull Men look very well a Horseback. Mais ne me parlez pas d’un Bal. La saison n’est pas brillante ici, a cause de tous ces debals. pray can you put me in the Way of paying my Respects to your father?

Repondez moy my good friend & believe me to be sans reserve your faithfull friend & hbl s