I have just been writing a French Letter to Mademoiselle Chaumont, but it costs me too much time to write in that Language, and after all ’tis very bad French, and I therefore write to you in English, which I think you will as easily understand, if not, ma chere Amie Sophie can interpret it for you.

Some of our Letters are long on the Way. The one you were so kind as to write me the 24th of September 85, did not come to hand till the Beginning of June 86. and lately M. LeCaze tells me that he had a Packet from you to me, but that he unfortunately left it at L’Orient, and it is not yet arriv’d.

If you have made any further Experiments in whitening the green vegetable Wax, I shall be glad to hear what Success you have met with.

I have frequently the Pleasure of seeing your valuable Son, whom I love as my own. He has communicated to me his Inclination to marry a young Lady of this Country, and that he has written to you for your and his Mother’s Consent. I wish his Happiness, and I believe he will find it in the Choice he has made, if you approve of it: for the Lady bears an excellent Character, and is of one of the first Families in this Country.

Please to present my affectionate Respects to Madam de Chaumont, and my Love to all your Children. With great Esteem and Affection, I am, my dear Friend, Yours most sincerely