Sept. 25, 17—.

[1] See [Letter the 74th].

[2] See [Letter the 70th].

[3] Several persons, perhaps, do not know that a macedoine is a collection of games at hazard, in which each person who cuts the cards has a right to choose when he holds the hand: it is one of the inventions of the age.

[4] The commandant of the corps in which Prevan served.


[LETTER LXXXVI.]

The Marechale DE —— to the MARCHIONESS DE MERTEUIL.

(Enclosed in the former.)