Your kind Letter per Mr. Pollock gave me great Pleasure, as it inform’d me both that you were well, and that you were doing well, for I wish you every kind of Prosperity.

In coming down from Paris to Havre, I stopt a Night at St. Germains, and had the Happiness of spending the Evening with your amiable Girls, who were preparing for England, where their good Uncle expected them. I congratulate you cordially on the final Settlement of your Contest there, and pray you may never have such another.

I should be glad to render Mr. Pollock any acceptable Service; but I have little Communication with Congress, and I believe his Affairs need no Interference of mine.

I have a young Kinsman from Boston now at Petersburgh in Virginia, where he went with some Expectation of finding Employ as a Clerk in some Counting-House. He has written to acquaint me that he has not met with any, and to know if I could procure him such Employment here. Iam unacquainted with his Abilities, except that I see by his Letter that he writes a good Hand. I have written to him that I do not hear of any Vacancy of the kind here at present; but that if he should come here, I would give him some copying Work, which might subsist him a while till he had an Opportunity of making himself known. He has not answer’d me, and I know not whether he is gone home to Boston, or is still at Petersburgh. If the latter should be the Case, and he is still out of Employ, and it should be in your Way to see him, and judge him worthy of your Recommendation, your affording it to him will much oblige Dear Friend, Yours most affectionately