Anne-Robert-Jacques TURGOT (1727–1781). L.A., Versailles, Sunday, May 21, [1775]; 2 pages, in-8. He regrets not having been able to satisfy his correspondent. “But you are not a magistrate; to entrust you with a department to work under me without that title would have been to demote you to the rank of chief clerk. To avoid this appearance, it would have been necessary to devise and create some new office; which at that moment would have stirred up a commotion, which I was perhaps foolish enough to fear.” He merged Mr. Albert’s department with that of Fagès… “Du Pont must have informed you that we were not satisfied with the sixth letter”…