My dear friend: your new title, will change neither my sentiments, nor my expressions, my dear Fawkener.
Friendship is full of talk, but it must be discreet. In the hurry of business you are in, remember only, j talk'd to you about seven years ago, of that very same ambassy. Remember j am the first man, who did forestall the honour you enjoy. Believe then, no man is more pleas'd with it than j am. J have my share in y^r happiness. If you pass through France, j advise you, j am but twenty leagues from Calais, almost in the road to Paris, in Champaine; the castle is call'd, Cirey, four miles from Vassy, on s^t Disiers road, and eight miles from s^t Dizier. The post goes thither. There lives a young lady, call'd the marquise du Chatelet, whom j have taught english, and who burns to see you. You will lye here, if you remember y^r friend Voltaire.

à Cirey à Vassy en Champagne ce 18 sept. nouvau stile 1735