
          High honorest Sir!


 Begging at first Your kind pardon and
 clemency, I have taken the liberty to send You
 with this my devoted letter the enclosed
 recomandation [recommendation] from my benevolent friend Mr.
 G. Reichenbach in Germany.


 I can't express with words my affliction
 that I cannot be the bearer of that personually [personally]
 for I at this time must be fixed here under
 the mournfullest circumstances!


 I have dared, to my own excusation, to give
 you a true relation over all that, adding the 
 essential objects of my unlucky life; but, as 
 I have no facility enough in expressing me clear
 and sufficient in Your beautifull [beautiful] language, I
 have writen [written] Germanish, in the cheerfull [cheerful] hope,
 You might perhaps understand me or surely
 find one interpretator [interpreter]. Might You kindly
 excuse and forgive me therefore.

        