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his own choice provided Your Majesty gives him leave to do so, & that He has some hopes of Your approbation, & of succeeding in his Suit. -- My answer of which I also send a Copy will sufficiently prove to Your Majesty that tho as a Sister I have fairly avowed how happy such an intermarriage would make me, I have given no encouragement, but desired no step might be taken until he did hear from me. The Summer comming on I suppose the Duke will not make any arrangement with his Son until he hears from me & it this Circumstance which makes me trespass upon You at present.

I have never named the Subject to any of the Princesses, for I have made it rule to avoid a Subject in which I know their oppinions differ with Your