An answer [to] the [Devil] The ex[press]ions in [you]r [letter] are cold and ill [tim]ed - Is this a [time to] ass[ent] t[hat I can]not serve [you] ...
Dundas, Lawrence,Sir,approximately 1710-1781.
[Edinburgh?] [s.n.]
[1780?]
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Signed: D-[as], i.e. Dundas, i.e. Sir Laurence Dundas