Letter received by Banks from Lord Gainsborough, 27 August1787 (Series 72.064) - No. 0001

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Sir

give me leave to trouble you with my sincere thanks for the Kind Interest you have taken in my Friend young Browns cause:  let me assure you how sincerely I am oblige'd to you and I am certain it must add to the pleasure of a benevolent action to think you have revive'd the drooping spirits of his distrest [distressed] Family.  I propose being in Town in a few days in my way to Limmington as a mild air for an Invalid Sister, I shall then take the opportunity of waiting upon you if you should be in town, so that I beg you will not think of troubling yourself to answer these hasty lines.

I am Sir
Your most oblig'd
Humble Servant

Gainsborough

Exton, Twenty seventh of August