AS IN THE FIRST VOLUME, I have refused to italicize the word “philosophe.” It is, of course, a French word and it has not yet been naturalized, but it is a French word for an international type for which there is no precise equivalent in English. To translate “philosophe” as “philosopher” is, in my view, to make a correct judgment, but the difference between the two words remains large enough to warrant an independent term. I should be pleased if my practice helped to domesticate this foreign word.
That part of a date of a letter appearing within parentheses, say the year or the month and year, was not in the manuscript but was added by the editor whose edition I used.