Autograph letter signed : Paris, to Samuel Richardson, 1753 Dec. 25.

Clairaut rehearses his appreciation of "Sir Charles Grandison" and reports that the Abbé Prévost "told me yesterday that, at last, he is very earnestly upon translating and within a little time will take the liberty to let you know what are the abridgements he designs to your book." He states his belief that "a good deal of abridgement is necessary, but I won't indeed take upon me the choice of it. And verilikely the Abbé Prévost notwithstanding his art and knowledge of the French taste, will be at a loss, to pick out the things to suppress." Prévost's translation was published in Amsterdam in 1755 and 1756.