Try and pass your time pleasantly; have no anxieties, and never doubt the love I bear you.
Napoleon.
February 26th.—Dupont defeats Russians at Braunsberg.
No. 50.
To the Empress, at Paris.
Osterode, March 2, 1807.
My Dear,—It is two or three days since I wrote to you; I reproach myself for it; I know your uneasiness. I am very well; my affairs prosper. I am in a wretched village, where I shall pass a considerable time; it is not as good as the great city! I again assure you, I was never in such good health; you will find me very much stouter.
It is spring weather here; the snow has gone, the streams are thawing—which is what I want.