You would do me a great service, my neighbor, if you could get for me the Scottish airs that Mr. Franklin kindly promised to give me; I would try to play them, and compose some in the same vein! I want my talent for music to please Mr. Franklin; this is not an affair of vanity. I have never taken pride in playing the harpsichord better than some others; I only wish to divert for a moment a great man from his affairs, and to procure myself the pleasure of seeing him. If Mr. Brillon was not ill, he would have gone to visit Mr. Franklin, and invite him if it suited him, to come dine with us at the house, on the day that he will be curious enough to tell me whether I play the Scottish airs well or poorly! You must do us the service of proposing this to him, it is important to me to know what day he would like to come, in order to have Pagin, whom it will certainly please him to hear! Adieu, my amiable neighbor: if it were possible that it be near the end of the week, this would suit Pagin.

I am also planning to ask you to bring me to visit Mr. Franklin some day; I would like to go with you, because if I am as shy as the day that he did me the honor of coming to my house, you, who know what I think, you will tell him, and I won't be the loser.