Sir

Having obtained the First Premium for a Design
for a House of Correction for the County of Middlesex I shall esteem
it a particular [..] if you will present my most grateful
acknowledgements to the Gentlemen in the Commission who have
honoured me with so Flattering a Division.

As upon Enquiry I understand that the Gentlemen have
appointed Jacob Lerour< no role > Esqr at their Architect, for carrying
their Designs into execution; I feel myself restrained from
an application for that Office, which the decision in my favour
might otherwise have warranted.

Having been much conferred for [..] in the forming my
Design I was Necessesated deliver the original sketches; and
precluded the possibility of retaining any copy other f the Plans
on Description should it therefore he consonant with the indulgence
of the Magistrates, to grant my permission to obtain a Copy
of them I shall feel myself under an addition at obligation
to that already conferred on

Sir
Your most obedt & Humble Servt.
T Hurst

Jany. 13th. 1785