L30/14/245/1

From Count Masin, Turin to 2nd Baron Grantham, (in French):

Not dated c. Aug 1776?

From: 1776 To: 1776

Translation: I was very sorry , my dear Ambassador, to learn of the indisposition suffered by your kind and worthy brother. From what Berteren told me, I had not realised how serious it was. I am delighted that he has recovered from it and I send you both my good wishes. I understand how much, combined with Mr Pelham`s earlier indisposition, must have given you a dislike for a formerly beloved place and I can see you helping him to leave it with pleasure, For my part, my plan is to come and see you for just a few days and then to return to Madrid, to take the baths there to complete the lime cure which really could not have been more beneficial. If you have arranged to come before Tuesday, I will have the hoped for pleasure of seeing you again. Without troubling your people you could stay here at the Posada de l`Escurial and make do with my ?Pouro. Anything you require can be sent for if you do not wish to go out. You know that I pride myself that everything at my home is at your disposal. I am very impatient to see our Cardinal in all his finery and to make the acquaintance of all the people belonging to him; about whom you have told me. On the subject of Pillement, I also have a great work of his, in pastel. He is an old acquaintance of mine; he has just finished four pictures commissioned by Mr de Sinsaforin [St Saphorin] two for the Prince and two for the Infant de Gabriel, the payment for which should secure for him the means to return to Paris upon which he seemed to be resolved. As for the succession of changes in the state of affairs between this court and that of Lisbon, I received the details quite regularly. It will give me great pleasure to see you, and to find that you yourself can confirm the idea I received at Wisadiloff that people could not be more pleased with his commission although I have not yet had the leisure to see the book of drawings above all. I thank de Ruhef while waiting for him to send the bill which I must pay. My duty and friendship to your brother and cousin and please believe, my dear friend, that from the depth of my soul and with more feeling that it is possible to express, that I am eternally yours, Farewell, de Masin.

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Robinson, Frederick,
Pelham, Thomas,
Pillement,
Saphorin