"I KNOW MY DAUGHTER HAS ARRIVED IN ENGLAND..." NECKER (Jacques). Autograph letter to François Coindet. S.l., "ce mercredy soir" [late January or early February 1793]. One p. in-12. "I have sent to ask Monsieur Coindet for news of his health and I send him a thousand regards. If he has anything to communicate to me in his letters of Friday, I beg him to send it to me by way of Mr de Germany who will have an opportunity... I know that my daughter has arrived in England, but I have no news of her. Germaine de Staël in exile. Narrowly missing being killed in Paris when she left on 2 September 1792, she took refuge in Switzerland with her parents, then went into exile in England, where she arrived on 20 January 1793. She stayed there until 25 May, sometimes in London, sometimes with her lover the Comte de Narbonne at Juniper Hall in Surrey, often in the company of other members of the liberal nobility such as Talleyrand and Mathieu de Montmorency. A friend of Jean-Jacques Rousseau and close associate of the Necker family, François Coindet (1734-1809) from Geneva settled in Paris. From 1754 to 1768, he was the agent of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, who mentions him in his Confessions... they fell out, but François Coindet kept several of the philosopher's manuscripts. Also an employee of the bank Thellusson, Necker et Cie in the 1760s, François Coindet won the confidence of Jacques Necker and was for a time his private secretary, remaining in close contact with him thereafter.