Concerning an outstanding debt from the
Duchess of Devonshire for a portrait of Lady Spencer. He cannot get to the article in the confusion of the ship. Also
Lord Duncannon's letter should not yet be sent. Ultimately Mr. Greenland should pay him £115.
He has written to "that poor girl at Oxford" to say that she should receive £10 now and then half-yearly.
Miss Boydell says that
Mr. Smart can only get a passage on a Danish East Indiaman, and that the
Alderman has sat once to Smart for him. He speaks of another picture, which he is to care for, it is a present to the
Duke of Dorset, a slight picture, from a bad
van Dyck. Details his account with Mr. Greenland.
He still cannot find the picture of Lady Spencer, the bustle of the ship prevents him and they are surrounded by smugglers.