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ALS: American Philosophical Society
<Tournus in Burgundy, December 18, 1777, in French: I beg
you to forward a letter to my son in New England. I have
received two of his, and he is extremely uneasy at having heard
nothing from me and my family. He is one of the engineers
that the government selected to send to America. I am a mother
who has lost her companion in joy and sorrow; the only pleasure
left me is in my family. Allowing him to go grieved me,
but he had a good offer.>
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