SIR,
As I cannot conveniently attend in person at your celebrated Repository at London, and being in great want of such a kind of horse, as I shall specify below, and as I presume in your own Stud you have more than one, such once victorious Steed on the Turf, though superannuated for the Race, yet capable of easy Road exercise (and the Writer here pretends to be as good an Horse-master as any in the Universe), I confide on your suppos'd candour to excuse this liberty, after much debating in my mind, to write immediately to yourself (having heard last summer Mr. Score, a Flint-merchant, speak much to your praise, who dines, he said, often at your Ordinary). I hope, therefore, you will indulge a Stranger's request, as most probably you may have such a Steed (in your own Stud) to dispose of; which will be esteemed a singular favour to your unknown, at present, though
Very humble Servant,
Samuel Langley, (D.D.)
