One volume (1772-1773) is titled ‘Recueil de pensees ingenieuses, tirees des auteurs du temps’; the other (1775) is titled ‘Pensees tirees de differents auteurs’. Both contain mainly aphorisms and excerpts of poems, including extensive quotes from Voltaire and the playwright Louis Boissy. Vol. 1 has a table of contents at the end listing authors quoted.

One letter written from Rotterdam described Tudor’s difficult voyage at sea. Another, written from London, addresses John’s plans after college, in which William Tudor quotes Voltaire.

Edward Robert Lytton thanks Charles Kent for settling the debate over the Voltaire quotation mentioned in DZ/118/C2/141. He discusses progress made on a biography until Edward Butler’s marriage and is now only missing the story of the arrest of the thief/murderer. He poses several questions about the publishers of Edward Bulwer Lytton’s early novels, and ends my stating his plans to visit Ken to examine materials for the third volume of his biography.

Charles Testut tells Léona Queyrouze that he will not be able to attend her lecture because he does not have the proper attire. He quotes Voltaire, noting that ‘Poverty is worse than vice’, before concluding by saying that he feels his destiny will change. Testut encloses a poem titled ‘Récit d’un rêve’.