Shiffner’s notes refer to:

• Voltaire’s Siècle de Louis XIV and Précis du siècle de Louis XV
• Copies of French verse
• Dr Goldsmith’s Life of … Bolingbroke
• Russian history in the eighteenth century
• The ice-house at Coombe
• The landing of émigres at Quiberon Bay
• The Franco-Spanish peace, 1795
• Various anecdotes

The notes run to three volumes.

James Harris Jr. writes that he has been in contact with George Pitt, the new ambassador to Spain, Mr Munro, and Mme Very. He then discusses Voltaire’s Siècle de Louis XV and concludes by addressing court movements.