The Abbé Morellet to Benjamin Franklin (unpublished)
Saturday

Here, Sir, is the copy of the translation that you have read over with those excisions that we agreed to make. I even think that you would do well to also cut the two places that I have enclosed between lines. You know how easily one seizes here upon every opportunity to do harm. I, for my part, would like to have every day the opportunity to serve you and to prove to you my tender and respectful devotion.