[draft] Boston Ly. 11 1787 Sir - you will receive this from the Hand of the Chevalier Longchaps. He was my Prison-Mate here 12 years ago, and was treated, for a Time, worse by the British than I have been; afterwards he was for Months in the same Chamber -. He was suspected if not known to have been serviceable to the Army at Prospect Hill. I was exceedingly surprised at seeing him lately, and finding that my Comerade Bleutiere [2] was the Individual who had undegone [sic] notable Tryal at Philadelphia in the year - 84 for Indignities against the Consulate of France these I most sincerely approve and aim to defend that Institution, of which I have given Proofs to Monsr.Marbois as well as to the Consul here; and therefore I doubly grieve at what has taken Place thro the Indiscretion of one for whom I have a Sort of School or Collegiate Regard a Jail producing Something [3] of the Kind, tho' there might not have been in Reality a Strict Conformity in the Ideas & principles which led [Mr] Bleutier and myself to the same Chamber of Suffering. I was in a Situation to help him to fare a little better than the [strikeout] [inserted: infamous Provost Marshal Cunningham allowed; and I was amply repaid by the amusement which an uncommon stock of Vivacity in this my Fellow Prisoner afforded under the various Forms of [4] singing laughing scolding [or] [text loss]oling. Longchamps de la Bleutier was the Name he gave me on paper when he left Prison. He has [conceived] that he shall reap some advantage by my Communicating these little annecdotes [sic] of our Brotherhood in Tribulation; at the Same Time he gives me pleasure by conveying to Major General Knox assurances that I am, with much Esteem Sir your Friend and most humble Servant James Lovell