To the Grand Seminary of Amiens 

August 18, 1818.

I had the honor of sending you a letter on the 11th of this month, concerning Mr. Etienne Prieur, who is in your care, and I find myself lacking your reply. 

Please grant me some few lines in your own handwriting, or else encourage Mr. Preur, if he is still at your seminary, to write me himself, as he had promised. 

I hope that you will forgive me if I must bother you again, in the hope of you answering the request that I respectfully make of you. 

It is my honor to be,

M.B.