Paris May y^e 29 1726 n. s.

My Lord,

My dispatch is too long to give y^r Grace any more unnecessary trouble; but I hope you will excuse my recommending to you at y^e earnest instance of M^r de Morville M^r Voltaire, a Poet and a very ingenious one, who is lately gone for England to print by subscription an Excellent Poem called Henry y^e 4^th.
He has been indeed in y^e Bastile but not upon y^e account of any state affair; but for a particular quarrel w^th a private Gentleman, and therefore I hope y^r Grace will readily give him y^r favour & protection in promoting y^e subscription.

I had not y^e assurance when I took my leave of his Majesty to mention M^r Tyrwight my chaplain to him for a benefice: a Gentleman of good birth, well affected to his Majesty's person, & Government, and a minister of good learning, of a pious & exemplary life suitable to his Profession, and if y^r Grace will take an opportunity of recommending him to his Majty's favour for y^e promise of some preferment, you will infinitely oblige

My Lord

y^r Grace's most faithfull & most Obed^t humble servant

H. Walpole