Thanks him for his letters and for his translation of [Carlo Guiseppe Guglielmo] Botta [History of the War of the Independence of the United States of America (1821)] and comments on same; disagrees with Botta in portraying the American cause so often "in dangerous and desperate circumstances," especially the British plan [in 1777] to cut off communication between the Northern and Middle states, which "always appeared to me one of the weakest of all their plans."; Typescript transcription on microfilm.
