I have the honor of returning, attached, your manuscript on the morals of chess, of which I kept a copy, which I will send first thing tomorrow to be printed in the Journal de Paris, if you do not make haste to prevent me from doing so. And after having let the public taste the pure pleasure of this, I could follow it up the next day or day after with my own little reflections, for a few of them have passed through my head; and if these differ at all from your opinions, you have already allowed me similar deviations more than once, which could never alter in any way the inviolable attachment which I have devoted to you