[31] Ib., ii. 179. Jan. 18, 1761.
[32] Ib., ii. 268. Dec. 12, 1761.
[33] Ib., ii. 28. Dec. 23, 1761.
[34] Nouv. Hél., III. xxii. 147. In 1784 Hume's suppressed essays on "Suicide and the Immortality of the Soul" were published in London:—"With Remarks, intended as an Antidote to the Poison contained in these Performances, by the Editor; to which is added, Two Letters on Suicide, from Rousseau's Eloisa." In the preface the reader is told that these "two very masterly letters have been much celebrated." See Hume's Essays, by Green and Grose, i. 69, 70.
[35] Corr., iii. 235. Aug. 1, 1763.
[36] Corr., ii. 226. Sept. 29, 1761.
[37] P. 294. Jan. 11, 1762.
[38] Madame Latour (Nov. 7, 1730-Sept. 6, 1789) was the wife of a man in the financial world, who used her ill and dissipated as much of her fortune as he could, and from whom she separated in 1775. After that she resumed her maiden name and was known as Madame de Franqueville. Musset-Pathay, ii. 182, and Sainte Beuve, Causeries, ii. 63.
[39] Corr., ii. 214. Conf., ix. 289.
[40] English translations of Rousseau's works appeared very speedily after the originals. A second edition of the Heloïsa was called for as early as May 1761. See Corr. ii. 223. A German translation of the Heloïsa appeared at Leipzig in 1761, in six duodecimos.