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Commenting on the contents of the "box of birds" he received from him and promising to safely return them; giving biographical details about "my late friend [Mark] Catesby" and including the circumstances of Catesby's death; saying "Mr. James Leman of Lond has a most curious collection of stuffed birds in great perfection but he is a very od uncommunicative man that ever lived, he will neither lend, sell, give or show them to any that desire to see them. Masel has call'd for the print you sent up with the birds, and taken it home to make the amendments you have noted I have given him my opinion and advice, and half a dozen of my black prints that he may see my manner of etching tho I really ...