Autograph letter signed : Florence, to Herbert Cahoon, 1961 June 18.

Concerning a unidentified draft of an 18th century letter written in Italian and mentioning an attack on Giuseppe Gigante of Naples; commenting "The mystery is enhanced by the lack of address, date and signature on the draft. As you note, the annotations in English do not seem to have been written by Hamilton, and I don't remember a secretary called Lega. The Gigante family was a large one - the painters were Achille, Ercole, Gaetano and Giacinto who flourished a few decades after this draft was written. Perhaps Giuseppe was a parent. I must enquire. As it was written to a Cardinal, my first suspicion was that it might have been addressed to Cardinal Ruffo, in which case one of Hamilton's secretaries might have penned comments in the margin - those in English. Apart from Ruffo, there was no other Cardinal working in the service of the Neapolitan Government at that time, presumably in late 18th century. But Hamilton was ailing after 1799 and there is just a possibility that he did scrawl the comments. But need the letter be Neapolitan? I am unfamiliar with the script of Prince Henry Stuart, Cardinal Duke of York;" saying he is unlikely to do further research due to his "precarious health" but will let him know "if anything turns up."