Debienne and Poligny have sent me the 6,575 fr.

30 c.

representing the first ten days of my allowance for the current year; their privileges finished on the evening of the tenth inst.
Kind regards.

O.G.
On the other hand, there was a letter from Mm.

Debienne and Poligny: GENTLEMEN: We are much obliged for your kind thought of us, but you will easily understand that the prospect of again hearing Faust, pleasant though it is to ex-managers of the Opera, can not make us forget that we have no right to occupy Box Five on the grand tier, which is the exclusive property of HIM of whom we spoke to you when we went through the memorandum-book with you for the last time.