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HAMILTON (SIR WILLIAM), 1730-1803. Diplomatist & Archaeologist. F.R.S., 2 pp. 4to, Naples, Dec. 1767, to the EARL OF SHELBURNE, Secretary of State (later Prime Minister), H.M. Consul Mr. Tatem "who has resided 25 years at Messina", will deliver this letter: he is "very diligent and punctual in his Majesty's Service ... greatly respected in Sicily as I have heard from many of the Nobility of that Island, whom I have met with at this Court". slight rust mark.

(Hamilton was Plenipotentiary at Naples 1764-1800. He married Emma Hart 1791).