To Mr. Prieur, Sr. [Eldest brother and pharmacist]

March 5, 1818

Dear Sir,

I expected to receive a written reply to my two previous letters; you should at least have acknowledged receipt of them.

Based on the reply you gave to my letter courier, I find it hard have faith in the absence of your brother, who you say has been gone for six months, since on February 21st you promised me to see him in the hour, and flattered yourself by saying you would get him to end my persecutions. When I saw him on March 1, your brother Baptiste  also said that he would speak to Etienne, so that he would cease all his workings against me. And Papon Lomini has also mad the same promises on several occasions. So I ask you, gentlemen, to reach some agreement among yourselves. Since you haven’t yet, I can only believe that your brother has not, as you suggest, left for six months. And the proof is that I am continually tormented day and night, and that I met him in Paris only a few days ago.

Assuming your brother had really left Paris, would it be possible that he has empowered another magician to come and torment me? I do not know who would be in charge of me then, but I do know perfectly well that he is carrying out his mission quite well, and he doesn’t leave me a moment of rest. 

Let me give you some recent proof of this: yesterday, on the 4th of the moth, while I was writing, some magician removed the loop of my garter, which forced me to buy another pair, as well as a snuffbox to replace the one that was magically removed, as I mentioned in my last letter. All this, like so many other things, prove to me that my suspicions are not unfounded. 

Yesterday, the 4th of the month, while writing, I do not know what magician removed the buckle of my garter; which obliged me to buy another pair, as well as a snuffbox to replace the one that was taken from me by magic, as I told you in my last one. All this, like many other things, proves to me that my suspicions are not ill-founded.

If you happen to find it appropriate to write me a reply, please let me know what country your brother is in. 

With respect,

M.B.