Autograph letter signed : Borculo, to The Duke of Leeds, 1709 September 19.

Explaining that they had intended to leave Borculo after two weeks, but that Count Stirum (see MA 4644.81) and his wife have persuaded them to stay another week; describing the reception their hosts have given them: "They contrive Every day some new diversion for their Lordships, & hunting, fishing, musick & dancing fill up the time with so much variety, that the days pass away very fast"; writing that their only regret is that they weren't able to bring a "Mr. Trymmer" with them, but that, so he "should not be alone among strangers, we Left with him Mr. Baily, who with some other English acquaintances, will divert him, when he has done with his Masters"; mentioning that they are so far from the theater of war that they hear news about it a day after they would have heard it in Utrecht; discussing "our great victory" (possibly referring to the Battle of Malplaquet); mentioning that the Count's oldest son is adjutant general to the "Prince of Frizeland" (Johan Willem Friso), that he has been sent by him to notify all of Friesland about the victory, and that he also informed his father about it on his way; discussing the casulties on both sides: "It has been a very bloody fight, seing [sic] we have had 9000 men killed, & 17000 wounded in't. The Loss of the french is reckoned, to 50000, betwixt killed, prisoners & defectors."