To: Henrietta St John, afterwards Lady Luxborough. n.p. 16 June [n.s.] 1724. Text: MS, BL Add. 34196, fol. 26.

I did not know of y^r feaver my dear Girl till I heard that you was swallowing the Jesuits bark. ¹ receive my compliments on y^r recovery. they are indeed very sincere. I think I must make you my compliments likewise on M^elle Haisse’s ² journey into England, since y^e pleasure of seeing you was a principal motive to her to undertake it: you were both very young when you knew one another in this Country. She is y^e best creature in the world, full of mildness, modesty, & good sense, & has honour enough to make a very valuable Man. with so many good quallitys she cannot fail of being welcome everywhere, and I am sure she will be so to you. the Marquise is charm’d with you all, & has taken such a liking to England ³ that I begin to doubt whether she will come back to us or no. I hope however that she will, for I see no likelyhood of my going where she is, and as well as my hermitage pleases me, I find it a little too solitary att present. I writ to my Lord by the last post, & therefore shall not trouble him by this. you will assure him of my duty, and my lady of my respects. adieu M^rs Harriet, Je vous embrasse de tout mon Coeur, et je vous aime assurement de meme. ⁴