From [Barbeu-Dubourg]
[December 5?, 1777]

While waiting to come in person to offer you my heartfelt compliment on your success, which I plan to do tomorrow, my dear Master, here is an Ode I am asked to present to you, along with its author, M. Courtney Melmoth, a friend of Dr. Lettsom.

Notation: Du Bourg undated