Gentlemen

The bearer M^r Taylor¹ has instructions to proceed to France immediately, This Gentleman having been along time Confidentially employed by M^r Hancock² While President of Congress, we think it proper that the delivery of one of the Packets sent to your care yesterday for our Commissioners in France should be intrusted to him.³ It is not however meant that you should Suffer any delay in the Sailing of the Vessels in Which you intended our dispatches F and G should be forwarded. It is only meant that you should give M^r Taylor the offer of delivering one of them personally at Paris, in preference to other persons mentioned conditionally to you when the Packets were sent. We are gentlemen &c

		James Lovell Signed
		for the Committee
		for Foreign affairs