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1712.1017.Fe

Versailles the 17/6 Oct^r

Dear S:^r

I thank you very kindly for yours
of the 25^th past, I send you inclos­
­ed the Ratification relating to
Prizes beyond the line &c

I received and haue produced my powers,
and vpon the Occasion of silver boxes
the secretary (m^r Torcy) told Me he
found We sometimes forgott to
send boxes w^th our seals as well
as other people: I don't know if
it be vsual to send powers with­
­out Boxes, and told him the box
would come by the next Courrier:
I remember my former Commissions
were always in sylver, in all cases
pray be pleased to send to the
Iewel office, and let Me haue a
box per primum.

It is now Midnight, the right
office hour, and I am as weary as a
Man can well be, having no news
of Drift, nor a Mortal to assist
Me: but at all hours and in all
Conditions, I am ever, my dear
Louis,¹ with great friendship

your most ob^t and
humble Ser^t

MPrior.

I inclose a Memoire to L^d Dartmouth
w^ch I beg you to gett copyed
by mons:^r de la Faye or any body
that can spell that language: for
he who transcribed it is a very honest
Gentleman but a damn'd Orthographer

2.

Endorsed:
M^r Prior.
Versailles. Oct. 6. 1712.

Notes
1.
Although this letter lacks an address, the "dear Louis" to whom Prior writes is clearly his fellow Cantabrigian Erasmus Lewis, who was Dartmouth's Under Secretary at this time.

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