To: Frances Gower. [?Paris.] 6 April [n.s.] 1725. 1 Text: MS, Beinecke Library, Yale University. Accession number 10591.

I have long known Madam how capable you are of friendship, and how sincere in y^r professions, and have always set a due value on y^e one, and been extreamly pleas’d whenever you honour’d me w^th y^e others. Receive my humble thanks for y^r last letter, and do me the justice to be perswaded that no one can have a truer respect for you than myself. you are very indulgent to a poor French woman who does y^e best she can in a strange Country. I am sorry she has not y^e satisfaction of assuring you in English ² that she knows your merit, and would be glad to deserve a share in y^r friendship. let me desire you to make my best services acceptable to Mr Gower, & to beleive me Madam y^r most faithful and obedient