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Confessions Of Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Book Eleven: Part 2

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From: Great Works of Literature
Date: 19920101
Author:Rousseau, Jean-Jacques

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Book Eleven: Part 2

I ought not perhaps to omit a trifling circumstance relative to this manuscript. I gave it, well sealed up, to Duvoisin, a minister in the pays de Vaud, and chaplain at the Hotel de Hollande, who sometimes came to see me, and took upon himself to send the packet to Rey, with whom he was connected. The manuscript, written in a small letter, was but very trifling, and did not fill his pocket. Yet, in passing the barrier, the packet fell, I know not by what means, into the hands of the clerk, who opened and examined it, and afterwards returned it to ...

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