[8] This letter has not been recovered.

[9] From the comedy, “On ne s’avise jamais de tout!

[10] See letter the [hundred and ninth].

[11] Letters the [hundred and twentieth] and [hundred and twenty-second].

[12]Plus je vis d’étrangers, plus j’aimai ma patrie”. Du Belloi’s tragedy of Le Siège de Calais.

[13] Letters the [forty-sixth] and [forty-seventh].

[14] Marmontel: Conte moral d’Alcibiade.

[15] It is because we have discovered nothing in the subsequent correspondence which can solve this doubt that we have decided to suppress M. de Valmont’s letter.

[16] This casket contained all the letters relating to her adventure with M. de Valmont.

[17] Letters the [eighty-first] and [eighty-fifth] of this collection.