BOILEAU-DESPREAUX, Nicolas (1636–1711)., L.A.S. ‘Despreaux’, 6 February

He sent him the book *De confessione auriculari*. ‘I am most grateful to you for the care you take in putting in a good word for me with Monsieur de CAUMARTIN. The interest he shows in my sorrow is the only thing capable of consoling me and helping me to bear my hair shirt gently, were it made of archal thread. I shall certainly go and thank him in due form, and you too, as soon as my book [Satires] is ready; but that cannot be for another fortnight or three weeks’ time’…

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