"This letter will be delivered by Signor Gioe. Bata. Missiaglia,
proprietor of the Apollo library, and the principal publisher and
bookseller now in Venice. He sets out for London with a view to
business and correspondence with the English booksellers: and it is
in the hope that it may be for your mutual advantage that I furnish
him with this letter of introduction to you. If you can be of use
to him, either by recommendation to others, or by any personal
attention on your own part, you will oblige him and gratify me. You
may also perhaps both be able to derive advantage, or establish
some mode of literary communication, pleasing to the public, and
beneficial to one another.

"At any rate, be civil to him for my sake, as well as for the
honour and glory of publishers and authors now and to come for
evermore.

"With him I also consign a great number of MS. letters written in
English, French, and Italian, by various English established in
Italy during the last century:--the names of the writers, Lord
Hervey, Lady M.W. Montague, (hers are but few--some billets-doux in
French to Algarotti, and one letter in English, Italian, and all
sorts of jargon, to the same,) Gray, the poet (one letter), Mason
(two or three), Garrick, Lord Chatham, David Hume, and many of
lesser note,--all addressed to Count Algarotti. Out of these, I
think, with discretion, an amusing miscellaneous volume of letters
might be extracted, provided some good editor were disposed to
undertake the selection, and preface, and a few notes, &c.

"The proprietor of these is a friend of mine, _Dr. Aglietti_,--a
great name in Italy,--and if you are disposed to publish, it will