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I send you here inclosed ye Medall you did favour me to send it by Mr Masson, which indeed I have kept a little to Long by mistake, because I faught I had give it again to Mr Masson, but now I have found it shut up in my Cabinett. I beg you a thousand pardons for it, and I will be very glad to know if in two or three weeks hence you shall have any Leasure to show me your Cabinett of which Mr Massons tels me a great deal of it, and in ye same while I remaine
Nicolino Haym
12th of July 1717'
(British Library, Sloane MS 4045, ff.18-19; Burnett 2020b, p. 965)