Dear Sir

I Congratulate you on your safe arival in this Kingdom, and more particularly as you bring good and agreeable news—I took it a littl unkind I must Confess at not hearing from you on your arival as you came directly from a Place where everything near and Dear to me resides—however a letter from a Friend is at any season welcom; I read it with pleasure until I came to the two last lines which contains an unesesary and unseasonable Complement and gave it the appearence of a Letter design'd to discharge a supposd Deibt rather then a Letter of Friendship and information—You do me a sensible pleasure in your attention to M^rs.Thompsons shoes you will please to make that Commison agreeable to your distination—Capt Nichalson's acc^t. of our Court Junt, I dare say was Entertaining, told no doubt, with a few of his Embelishments—I hope you will Enjoy much Satisfaction in the Pleasures which paris afourds—particularly in appearing at every Public place where you Can mortify the English and agrandize the States—Cap^t Hinman presents his best Comp^ts. we should have been happy, to have meet you in Paris Your most Hble Ser^t