Dear Madam,
PLEASURES AND OCCUPATIONS IN PARIS.
I am this moment (about one o'clock in the afternoon) landed after a very pleasant passage. I already feel my mind expand with the unbounded prospect of the Continent. But notwithstanding my love of freedom you may rest assured that in due season, I shall return without reluctance to my cage in Bentinck Street.
I am, Dear Madam,
Most truly yours,
E. Gibbon.
317.
To his Stepmother.
Paris, May 12th, 1777.
Dear Madam,
The departure of the post only leaves me time to say that I reached this place last Saturday night, and that I already find myself as perfectly established as I ever was in London.