I have had the Pleasure of seeing Lord Fitzmaurice several Times. I congratulate your Lp. sincerely on your having so promising a Son. He will I am persuaded make a valuable Man, and be a Comfort and Honour to you in your Old Age.

The bearer, Wm Temple Franklin, is my Grandson and Secretary. He is to stay in London but a short time, is a good your Man, and will be very sensible of any Civility your Lordship may think fit to show him.

Please to accept the enclos’d Pamphlet, curious for the Subject, a pretended Magnitne animale, by which a Charlatan has made a great Fortune here in a short time. With great and sincere Respect, I am Your Lordship’s most obedient and most humble Servant