My illustrious colleague, the report on M. de la Blancherie's proposal will be presented tomorrow, Wednesday, at the Academy. I hope that you have not forgotten that you have been nominated one of the committee members reporting to the assembly. Your fellows are M. de Lalande, M. de Condorcet, and myself, your servant. It is customary that the committee members have read the report before it is read aloud to the Academy, and that they be present when it is read. But for this it will suffice, my illustrious colleague, that you be at the Academy around four or four-thirty, or even later if you cannot help it. Adieu, my illustrious colleague, I have only enough time to tell you how much I am truly attached to you for life