Allow me, Sir, to address to you a memorandum on which M. le cardinal de Rohan asks the advice of your respectable papa. The inclemency of the season does not allow me to come and ask him myself. It is a matter, I believe, of learning if these people are known to you, if you have heard about their affair, and if they are worthy of the help for which they are asking. M. le cardinal has asked me to obtain these clarifications and to communicate them to him. I shall take this occasion to see if we cannot bring to conclusion the affair of your former servant, who, as you know, met with a difficulty that was not entirely up to M. le cardinal to overcome because the rule of the Quinze Vint [Hospital] is total blindness. Take this occasion to remember me to your dear papa, and it would be very obliging of you to send me back the memorandum. Please accept the assurance of my respectful affection without any other formal ending, as if I were a Quaker and as true as the Quakers profess to be