Jean Le Rond d'ALEMBERT (1717-1783). L.S., 1 March 1769, [to Pierre-Jean Grosley] 2 pages in-4 (stain). He apologises for not replying in his own handwriting, because of 'the weakness of my eyes to light'. He has given Grosley's manuscript [London] to the printer Prault, "without changing more than two or three expressions which did not seem to me to be very noble. [He expects the work to appear in a month'. He had a work sent to him "on the destruction of the Jesuits [...] The best thing in La Lande's Voyage d'Italie is the memoirs of the abbé Gougenot which he found a way of obtaining, and a few other memoirs that were supplied to him; the rest of his work is very bad, especially the style; he speaks of you in his preface, half fig, half grape"... It was published in the gazettes that d'Alembert had married: "Dieu me garde de prendre cette chaine"...