4. A political economist and author of Remarques sur les avantages et les désavantages de la France et de la Gr. Bretagne, par rapport au commerce . . . (2nd ed.; Leiden, 1754). On Jan. 9 he wrote again (APS), this time partly in French and partly in English, to say that BF had not come to see him, to inquire about the Doctor’s health, and to ask whether he was coming that morning. With this second note, presumably, he forwarded one that he had received from a M. Guillard, dated merely Tuesday [Jan. 7?], enclosing a pamphlet by an old and unnamed friend of his, which he hoped Dangeul would approve. “Vous voudrés bien alors le remettre to this great Republicain.” APS. Our guess is that Guillard was Nicholas-François, the well known playwright. He does not appear again in BF’s papers; neither does Dangeul except for his dinner invitation below, under Jan. 13.

5. The present note, introducing himself, is clearly earlier than that just cited of the 9th, and the January date seems more probable than a Monday in late December.

6. Dangeul seems to have brought to London a paper nominating him for the Royal Society and signed by French members, which BF and Pringle also signed; but the nomination did not go through. Above, VIII, 358.