Manuscript, in multiple hands, of five pieces on various political and personal affairs pertaining to George Dodington. The first is a letter labeled "Copy of a letter from G.T. to C.T. from Quebec the 5th Octbr. 1759," which asks the recipient to use "the inclos'd Papers, that you may use them in Justification of Me, & my Brother Brigadiers, in Case the same malignant Spirit of Defamation should exert it self, There, which I have heard, with Astonishment, does, Here." The next piece, "Sundry Sketches," dated 1756, comments on the Transportation Act of felons and the writer's desire to "keep as many Troops as France upon the Continent;" the third piece, titled "On the American War with France" and heavily emended, declares, "I think nothing that can be given too much to destroy France in America: nothing that can be spar'd too much to distress her every where." The fourth piece, in a different hand, is a "Letter from a Frenchman on the affairs of France - Intercepted & dated Feby 9 1760," which discusses the writer's success at Minorca, the "intrigues at Court," and the attempted murder of a shipman by the Officers of the Regiment of Bourbon; and the final piece is a codicil to his will giving his onyx ring to his friend "The Earl of Litchfield," and signed and dated February 26, 1762.
