4. These sequential lists, with interlineations (“&…1”) and running totals, fill one sheet. WF’s entry was squeezed at the bottom of the page, and the last two entries were added, sideways, in the left margin. The calculations that are here published beneath the lists were written in the right margin. One of them, which adds 31 to 74, bears an obvious relationship to the second total; the pertinence of the other remains obscure. What this document records remains a mystery, despite the diligent research of editors past and present. Rather than offer theories that cannot be fully supported, we publish it, without explanation, at the earliest plausible date.

5. So dated because of three of the people listed. The comte de Castiglioni first met BF on Aug. 3, 1784: XLII, 286n. TJ arrived in Paris in early August: XLII, 390n. Mid-August was when BF received and answered a letter from WF, their first communication since before the war; see BF to WF, Aug. 16. The first list cannot have been compiled later than November, 1784, as Paolo Frisi died on Nov. 22: XLII, 286n.

6. We assume that BF meant Dailly, his neighbor, identified in the annotation of WTF’s letter of Sept. 26, below.

7. Mme d’Andlau (XXXIX, 603n) was the daughter of Mme Helvétius. Her mother-in-law, the comtesse, was Marie-Henriette de Polastron d’Andlau (1716–1792): David Smith et al., eds., Correspondance générale d’Helétius (4 vols. to date, Toronto, Buffalo, and Oxford, 1981– ), IV, 10–.

8. Mme Brillon’s son-in-law of about a year, Lt. Col. Antoine-Marie Paris d’Illins: XLI, 136n.

1. Mme Sorin was a Passy neighbor during the summertime: XLI, 296.