permit me Dear Sir to solicite your support towards attaining the honor of my son Robert OCallaghan Newenham being appoint’d consul for the United States of America at Marsailles. Sir Edward has settled him there probably, for life. This appointment must be of service to him, as well as an honor to his father and me.

I woud not offer to solicite your respectable friendship did I not know he will not disgrace your protection, his heart and his principles are equally good, and he posess’s an intelligence and sobriety of conduct, much beyond his years.

Believe me Sir I am fully sensible of the impropriety of my thus intruding upon you but when I consider the character I am addre[ssing] I am encouraged to expect every allowance [for] a mother’s pleading for the interest and honor of a beloved son, and if I do not succeed in my wish for him, I shall feel secure of pardon from the universal philanthropy with which you are so eminantly distinguishd. I am Dear [Sir] with the highest respect and regard your obliged and affectionate Humble Servant