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                                                        Oct 1782
     Dear Miʃs Hamilton,

     We shall be rejoiced to have the pleasure of
your company tomorrow to dinner; and shou'd
have been happy to have had it in our power to
have sent our carriage for you, but we are as
yet unprovided with one, which will not be
the case many days longer. Her Majesty is upon
all occasions very gracious, but at the same [time]
as her attentions are never without a meaning
it must surely be very flattering to you to be
so often the object of them I am
                                                        Dear Miʃs Hamilton
                                                        Your faithful & Affect^e. Uncle
                                                                  Frederick Hamilton
Tuesday October 1^st. 1782
N^o. 3. S^t. James's Street.¹

Notes:

¹ These two lines appear to the left of the closing salutation and signature.