| Description | Written to the Hotel de Mirabeau, Rue de la Paix, Paris.
Receipt of letter of Wednesday 14 June: request to pay pair of candelabra and Sevres china cups: her inclination, with everything so high in price, for him to choose little but of very good quality: limit for him to buy a really good clock at £100-£150: knowledge of his and Lady Howe's good taste, with a large field for ornamental cups of Sevres and Dresden for him to choose from, and bronzes: having been extremely ill and obliged to move to York House: thanks for his willingness to undertake her commissions: love to Lady Howe, benefitting from the tour and change of air: hope of his leaving his troublesome complaint in Paris.
16 June, no year given, but context of other letters makes it 1820.
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