JB/009/093/007

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To Miss V
Dec 1791

Ld Lansdowne gives one pair. A friend of
mine who is intimate with Madame Helvetius
having put into my hands a couple of remarkable
Letters of her husbands in which he
condemns his friend Montesquieu for his
aristocratical principles, predicts the immediate
success of the Esprit du Lois and its subsequent
downfall, as well as the prevalence of democratical
principles. I communicated them as a literary
curiosity to Ld Lansdowne. They interested
him, and as a proof of it, "they ought to be
translated into English, and published with
a Commentary," says he, "suppose now you were
to do it." There are friends of ours my Lord
who would do it better — they are more in the
habit of doing such things: What Mr B V.o the
same — Aye— see what came of my proposing
it: if any body else had proposed it to you, or nobody

+ This letter is the same as that inserted four pages on.

Identifier: | JB/009/093/007 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 9.
Date_1	1791-12	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	009	Main Headings
Folio number	093	Info in main headings field
Image	007	Titles
Category	correspondence	Number of Pages	2
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Notes public	incomplete draft of letter 825, vol. 4; printed in bowring, x, 270-271	ID Number	57874999
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