However, as you insist on my seeing him, I will do it, and think Valence the properest town for that interview; it is but two days' journey from this place; it is in Dauphine.
"I shall stay here till I have an answer to this letter.

If you order your son to go to Valence, I desire you would give him a strict command of going by a feigned name.

I do not doubt your returning me whatever money I may give him; but as I believe, if he receives money from me, he will be making me frequent visits, it is clearly my opinion I should give him none.

Whatever you may think proper for his journey, you may remit to him." "Lyons, April 25 [1742].
"On recollection (however inconvenient it may be to me on many accounts), I am not sorry to converse with my son.

I shall at least have the satisfaction of making a clear judgment of his behaviour and temper: which I shall deliver to you in the most sincere and unprejudiced manner.