Autograph letter : Dublin, to Richard Shackleton, 1744 June 11.

Saying that he has received Shackleton's letters, and he is glad to hear that Shackleton's aunt, Mary Wilkinson Barnard, and his sister, Elizabeth Shackleton, "arrived safe at your mansions"; telling him about encountering a friend, one "Josy Delany": "after mutual salutations Questions about friends at Ballitore &c, &c, I asked him whether Dublin air agreed w[i]th him? (these were [his] words) Very indifferently repliys Josy, why so Josy? here he answerd nothing for a good while, at Las out it came -- sure I'm marryd! to whom pray? to a Girl of this Town? where do you Live? in Dolphins Barne Lane. Thus we parted he look'd very thin and melancholy so it seems his affairs are but in a bad Situation the Waistcoat he ware was at Least 5 or 6 inches too wide"; expressing concern about another friend, John Slater, who has also turned melancholy: "I met him In the Street where indeed I think he could scarcely walk so pale of a yellowish paleness I scarcely ever thought he c[oul]d be"; attributing Slater's problems to his "Devil of an Aunt"; commenting on the travels of "2 Boobies" who "finding france too hot for 'em retird to Holland, from thence to London, thence to Dublin, thence to Edenderry, thence to Ballitore thence to Portarling -- and where next" (a note on this letter in The Correspondence of Edmund Burke suggests that this may be a reference to two French students at Ballitore who were Huguenot refugees).