Ithank you, my dear Baron, for the obliging reproaches you made me on my long silence; I have not been ill, nor have I had any particular business. But I wished to write you a very long letter, and I have not had two hours at my own disposal for these three months past. I can neither rely on a Sub-governor nor Preceptor, therefore never quit my pupil. It is true, I get up two hours before him, and I go to bed an hour after him; but in the morning I prepare his lessons for the day, and in the evening I write a very exact journal of every thing he has done amiss throughout the day, and enumerate every opportunity lost or neglected, when he might have done a good action or have said an obliging thing. As the greatest part of his faults are committed before company, I very seldom take notice of them at the time, which makes him often flatter himself, not having been reproved throughout the day, that the journalist will have nothing to say; I leave him in this uncertainty when he goes to bed: so that he wishes for to-morrow, that he may be satisfied. As soon as he gets up, and is dressed, which he is very little time about, as his curiosity makes him eager to hear, he comes into the room and asks me for my journal, I give it him, and he reads it aloud, which I insist on his doing from beginning to end, and without making any comments as he goes along; for it is a very right thing to accustom him to read an account of his own faults. I then read it a second time, and we communicate to each other the reflections we have made upon it. Thus I not only familiarize him to hear the truth, but to desire it, to like it, and to listen to it quietly, without its having been at all disguised.