you'll find them cheaper and more easily in London that at
Paris.

All your late acquaintances in this Town desire me to present
you with their sincere compliments and best wishes; as to mine
you know that they have no other object but your Welfare.

I am, Dear Sir, for ever
your most affectionate friend
and humble servant
D'HOLBACH

P. S. I'll be very much oblig'd to you for sending over to me in
2 vol. small octavo.



HOLBACH TO WILKES
(Wilkes, Correspondence, London, 1805, Vol. 4, p. 176)
PARIS, April 27; 1775

"_My Lord_,

"I received with the utmost gratitude your lordship's friendly
letter of the 28th of March. (1775?) I should have done
myself the honor of answering sooner to your kind propositions,
if I had not been prevented by some gouty infirmities that have
assailed in the beginning of this spring. I esteem myself very
happy to find that the hurry of business, and your exhaltation
to the rank of chief-magistrate, could not make you forget your