Your very polite & friendly favour of the 26th. ult. I duly recd. It is before me, & demand my thanks.

I enclose the extracts from John Marston’s Communications, which I have had copied for the new Edition.

Agreeably to your directions, I send by this day’s Mail, a copy of the Naval History, & shall send two more by the succeeding mails.

Accept the assurances of very sincere respect from / your obt. hble servt