I am favoured with yours of the third of Octobr, in about ten days, the contents of which, does me the highest Honor as it is demonstrative of your desire to serve me and my Family, from the Impulse of Affections the Evidence of which is so like your Self, most Indearingly conveyed; but no more, let it Suffice that we love, honor, and Rever you, and wait with anxious hope for that happy day when we may again injoy your Presence. As yours did not contain any discription of the particulars of the Wheels you was pleas’d to order I have sent two sets of different hight, and strength, in hopes that one of them may be applicable to your Carriage the other to be dispos’d of in the manner which your kind postscrip set forth, these wheels sent are such as I make in common, and Equal to any in point of durability for the different Carriages for which they are intended, the lightist for Post Chaise, or light Porch Charriots, the Other for Heavy Craneneck Charriots or Coach at Eight and nine guineas per set, with an allowance of Eleven Shillings for finnishing them with paint, boxed &c but if for Traveling, as (Monsieur Duchateaus) ten guineas or as much Stronger as shall be wish’d for, from Fifteen to twenty guineas, for Carriages of Burden, as I have now by me a pair of Cart or Waggon Wheels which by the most Competant Judges are pronounc’d to be the strongest three Such Wheels that Ever was made, my dear Friend if my reasoning shou’d not be Value’d in your mind with regard to the not sending the Wheels with whole rims of wood, I hope you will acquit me of any want of regard to you, Sharing in a former Instance of Orders for the Prince of Condé, and others Experienced their wish for Whole wood rims, but as that is not to be done alltogether in sets more than one in five Hundred I feard your Exhibiting such would naturely be productive of such a desire, and there not being so would be risquing the favour and approbation of those for whom they may be design’d, but I will make a point of keeping them in as few pieces as possible; in answer to your wish for an Investigation of the Nature of the Subscription for my Support, its as follows; being obliged to commit an act of Bancruptcy in order to procure a release from Sir Jacob a Bancrupt two months before, and to give the proper claim in our Joint Cridditors, I was thereby Totally divested of all property; in this state and on the day of my resignation thereof Mr. Saml Smith steptd forward and assured me of his assistance; accordingly he drew Up my case and opend a subcription for raising the sum of three thousand pounds, for seven Years, at one hundred Each on my bond Sml Smith, Benjn Smith, his Elder Brother, Willm Smith, and Son, Jos Nash, and Jos Goss, nephews to B, and S. Smith, Mr. Bull, and Mr. Jon Thontin, making together seven, with wich I went forth, and where so happy as to have the following Duke of Montagne, Duke of Newcastle, Duke of Dorset, the Honble Stewart McKenzie, the Revrd Doctr Willson, now Bishop of Bristol, his Bro Mr. Thos Willson, Gent Jn Phillimore, George Jeffery, Jno Eddows, and Danl Morgan, one of my assignees, making eighteen and in my being at a stand Mr. B Smith vollunturyly began again with a second hundred, with which I have, with our savings been enabled to go on with pleasure and profit, and for which honor, and happiness, I hope we shall ever give testamony of a due sense by exerting all diligence and prudence in our several capacitys my Brother in   terden [Tertenden?] directed me in my difficulties, and have hardly had any intercorse with him since, but he and Family are all well, and your Bettsum is grown a Jolly and harty young woman, and is happy in having the honor of pening these lines to her much Esteemd and kind friend, the two sets of Wheels where ship’d the 28 of Novbr on Board the Friendship for Roen and hope they will come safe and in due time and believe me to be with Sincere Gratitude Yours Moste Affectionately