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from Handy Boy to me in confidant(?) and according to
Handy written information to by(?) Peter and things the
letter to the committee)- had been skipped by Mr. [Gurnnci?]
lay(?) before this(?) I therefore thanked him readily and begged him
to excuse my liberty for accepting Handy's offer to look
after the auction(?) House [?ade] himself - an offer[...]
and have accepted in view of Handy; many of the duties.
Our American minister could have gladly [...] to
do as this favor himself as were obliged to him for other
courtesains, and an he was a dear friend of the [?] in
Constantinople. "So I had only asked him, to convey ours thank once more"