Address panel with seal and postmark: "A Monsr/ Monsr Hoblyn/ chez Monsr Alexander/ Banquier/ a Paris."
Docketed.
Concerning his journey from Paris to Dover; writing that he had at last embarked in Dover after a calm passage only to find "all my things plundered by the Custom-house Officers"; describing the beginning of the journey and his traveling companions: "My journey from Paris hitherto has been been rather whimsical than agreable. The first Voiture carried myself & company to Arras, the accomodation on the road but indifferent; the company so odd a mixture that I myself was forc'd to undertake the part of the Gallant Gentleman, & with it the protection of a simple laughing goodnatur'd girl, who seem'd to wish herself well rid of a grave Bourgeoise her mother: The other principal figures in the Farce were a kind of Courtly-bred Dame, with whom a Young Chevalier just come from school was really smitten from the first setting out; a Sensible Old Eschevin of Roya; a coarse rough-hewn Abbé, & a Young boisterous German who had travell'd much en passant. Laughing, singing, playing carried us pretty well thro' the difficulties we met with in the way to Arras. Here I lost my old Voiture, Company--and Damsel"; describing the second stage of the journey: "My Voiture from Arras to St Omer was in the language of the Country a Chariot, but in plain English a Waggon with a linnen Covert pervious to Wind & Weather--the company of a piece"; including a long impromptu poem in Latin hexameters; writing that other affairs call him onwards to Canterbury and Oxford; adding in a postscript that he has arranged for Hoblyn's greatcoat to be sent to Dr. Hawley.