N.B. The three following paragraphs
are taken from the Holograph of said Mr
Bowdler as written to the said Mr Lyon
without Date, Subscription or Address.

I herewith send you a copy of a Letter
from my Sister Gordon to my Sister
Jane Bowdler, also a copy of what I took
down from her own mouth relating to her
affair, &and an inventory of what she lost, so far
as she could recollect the particulars.

I believe I told you the paper was sign’dsigned
by her, but if I said so, it was a mistake, for
I now recollect, that when I read over what
I had wrote down from her mouth, I found
the language so incorrect, that I resolved to
alter it at my leisure, &and then to give it to her
to sign, when put into a more perfetperfect form.
This however I delayed too long, for it pleased
God to take her, before I had done any thinganything
towards it, so you can only now have what I
may call a rough dratdraft.

Mrs Jackson, a Lady who had been long acquaint-
ed with Mrs Gordon, &and who knew the China, having
seen it at Mr Gordon’s house in London, going one
day along the Streets, saw some of this China in
the window of a China Shop, &and had the curiosity
to go into the Shop to ask the man of whom he
bought it, &and he said he had it from a Woman of
the town, who told him it was given her by yethe D.Duke of C.Cumberland