To Mr.  Moreau, Physician, etc.

Paris, September 16, 1818. 

Dear sir:

I feel I must inform you that Mr. Chaix, your friend, having paid me a visit on April 1, promised me on your behalf that you would be completely terminating your relationship with me as soon as you had received the response you were expecting from the gentlemen who make up your Avignon Seeing no change in my position, I had to remind your friend of the promise he had made to me on your behalf; he urged me to be patient until the time of his departure from Carpentras, and warned me against writing to him if I did not obtain what I was to expect from you.

Seeing no end to my troubles, I have not let him ignore me, as he had suggested that I do, and I have not received any  response 

I’m sure that he has made known to you and to your colleagues in Avignon my very reasonable complaints. However, your agents still torment me day and night without cease; please, I beg you, order them to end their persecutions. As you have often promised me and and have not yet done

Nevertheless, I have responded to all the invitations that you have been kind enough to make to me; I have answered all the various questions that my circumstances obliged you tp  ask me at the time; you even seemed to be informed of everything by your colleagues, the Physicists of Avignon, who had instructed you to do me all manner of harm, a task you performed quite well. . But why not act on all the good that you had promised me? Why not give me back the freedom that you had also promised me, with the express condition of not leaving you, if I did not want to be pursued by the elves, wherever I might go? Finally you have broken your word, and here I am fallen into the hands of Vandeval, then into those of Jacques Prieur, and then after into those of  Etienne Prieur, whose services he has nothing to be proud of.

I am, as I await your answer, which I beg you to be good enough to give me,

Your servant, M.B.