3. This important Parisian cartographer, who had published numerous maps of North America in 1778 and 1779, seems to have met BF for the first time in mid-September 1780, when delivering a parcel of Thomas Hutchins’ maps and pamphlets: XXXIII, 298n. These must have been copies of Hutchins’ A Topographical Description of Virginia, Pennsylvania, Maryland, and North Carolina … (London, 1778). Between that meeting and this letter, Le Rouge translated Hutchins’ work into French and received permission to publish it along with a newly engraved map. His translation, Description topographique de la Virginie, de la Pensylvanie, du Maryland et de la Caroline Septentrionale … was approved by the censor on Nov. 15. (The censor’s letter appears on p. [2].) The proofs that Le Rouge enclosed with the present letter were undoubtedly the first section of the work, which was published in March; see his next letter, below, March 20, 1781.