| Description | Folkes has received his correspondent's note via his friend Mr Graham. It surprised him, but he has complied with the contents and has paid £20 to Sir Francis St John. He intends to ignore 'the ungentlemanlike and unchristian part of your note' saying that he, Folkes, has alway been a sincere friend and wellwisher. On the demand, he must justify himself, giving an account of the supposed debt from 1721 for bottles of claret and a hogshead, which he offered to settle several times, but was refused. His correspondent also offered to make a gift of 50 guineas 'as the price I paid for my children’s picture painted by Mr. [Giuseppe Pierre Joseph] Grisoni which you was desirous to make me a present of, tho I would no ways admit of it'. Folkes has been received by Sir Francis very civilly and he has seen his correspondent many times in Florence, but no mention was made of the matter until this present note. |