THIS fits key will open treasures; but vain in me to know them[1]. Your convenience is my satisfaction. If I can or may read what will be in this table, it ought and shall be my happiness. You must discern this comes from the most interested joiner that ever made a thing of this nature. Peruse narrowly, and what faults you find, they shall be mended in every particular, to the utmost capacity of, sir,
Your obliged humble servant,
TO THE COUNTESS OF ORKNEY[2].
WHEN, upon parting with your ladyship, you were pleased to tell me I should find your present at home, natural justice prompted me to resolve, that the first use I made of it should be in paying acknowledgments to my benefactor. But, when I opened the writingtable, which I must now call mine, I
- ↑ This letter was accompanied with a present of a writing-table, seal, paper, wax, &c.
- ↑ This lady had been mistress to king William III.
