To Elizabeth Briggs LONDON, August 7, 1786. MY DEAR BETSY, - You may do me a considerable piece of service by informing me of all you know concerning Mr. Fletcher, chiefly when he was abroad. Perhaps you can give me light from some letters or papers of your brother William's; as I suppose all his papers are in your hands. Perhaps you may have some valuable letters which he (Mr. F.) wrote to your good father. See letter of Sept. 24; and for William Perronet (who died in 1746 at the age of twenty-two), Atmore's Memorial, pp. 320-1. I think both for my sake and for Mr. F.'s sake you will give all the help you can herein to, my dear Betsy, Yours affectionately.