My health is good. There is nothing fresh here.--Yours ever,

NAPOLEON.

No. 62.

TO THE EMPRESS, AT PARIS.

_Finckenstein_, _April 10, 1807_, 6 P.M.

_My Dear_,--My health is excellent. Here spring is beginning; but as yet there is no vegetation. I wish you to be cheerful and contented, and never to doubt my attachment. Here all goes well.

NAPOLEON.

No. 63.

TO THE EMPRESS, AT PARIS.

_Finckenstein_, _April 14, 1807_, 7 P.M.

I have received your letter of April 3rd. I see from it that you are well, and that it has been very cold in Paris. The weather here is very unsettled; still I think the spring has come at length; already the ice has almost gone. I am in splendid health.

Adieu, dear. I ordered some time ago for Malmaison all that you ask for,--Yours ever,

NAPOLEON.

No. 64.

TO THE EMPRESS, AT PARIS.

_Finckenstein, April 18, 1807._

I have received your letter of April 5th. I am sorry to see from it that you are grieved at what I have told you. As usual, your little Creole head becomes flurried and excited in a moment. Let us not, therefore, speak of it again. I am very well, but yet the weather is rainy. Savary is very ill of a bilious fever, before Dantzic; I hope it will be nothing serious.

Adieu, dear; my very best wishes to you.

NAPOLEON.

No. 65.

TO THE EMPRESS, AT PARIS.

_Finckenstein_, _April 24, 1807_, 7 P.M.

I have received your letter of the 12th. I see from it that your health is good, and that you are very happy at the thought of going to Malmaison.

The weather has changed to fine; I hope it may continue so.

There is nothing fresh here. I am very well.

Adieu, dear.--Yours ever,

NAPOLEON.

No. 66.

TO THE EMPRESS, AT PARIS.

_Finckenstein_, _May 2, 1807_, 4 P.M.

_My Dear_,--I have just received your letter of the 23rd; I see with pleasure that you are well, and that you are as fond as ever of Malmaison. I hear the Arch-Chancellor is in love. Is this a joke, or a fact? It has amused me; you might have given me a hint about it!

I am very well, and the fine season commences. Spring shows itself at length, and the leaves begin to shoot.

Adieu, dear; very best wishes.--Yours ever,

NAPOLEON.

No. 67.

TO THE EMPRESS, AT PARIS.

_Finckenstein, May 10, 1807._

I have just received your letter. I know not what you tell me about ladies in correspondence with me. I love only my little Josephine, sweet, pouting, and capricious, who can quarrel with grace, as she does everything else, for she is always lovable, except when she is jealous; then she becomes a regular shrew.[24] But let us come back to these ladies. If I had leisure for any among them, I a.s.sure you that I should like them to be pretty rosebuds.

Are those of whom you speak of this kind?

I wish you to have only those persons to dinner who have dined with me; that your list be the same for your a.s.semblies; that you never make intimates at Malmaison of amba.s.sadors and foreigners. If you should do the contrary, you would displease me. Finally, do not allow yourself to be duped too much by persons whom I do not know, and who would not come to the house, if I were there.

Adieu, dear.--Yours ever,

NAPOLEON.

No. 68.

TO THE EMPRESS, AT PARIS.

_Finckenstein, May 12, 1807._

I have just received your letter of May 2nd, in which I see that you are getting ready to go to St. Cloud. I was sorry to see the bad conduct of Madame ----. Might you not speak to her about mending her ways, which at present might easily cause unpleasantness on the part of her husband?

From what I hear, Napoleon is cured; I can well imagine how unhappy his mother has been; but measles is an ailment to which every one is liable. I hope that he has been vaccinated, and that he will at least be safe from the smallpox.