If you can forget a few days y^r golden palace, y^r feasts, and fumum et opes strepitum que Romæ, come hither.
You will find, a homely frugal fare, a hard bed, a poor room; but here is a friend who expects you.

You should come a horse back. If y^r m^r Nosse has one to lend to you, jll take care of him.

C'est chez Chatillon, perruqier à s^t Germain, rue des Recollets, vis à vis des révérends pères recollets, faquini zociolanti. Il faut demander Sansons, il habite un trou de cette baraque, et il y en a un autre pour vous. Vale, veni.

[25 Mars 1729]