Lodge of Sincere Friendship: Correspondence and Formation of the Provincial Grand Lodge of Toulouse

...all the packets that we will be in a position to address to you, because these frequent dispatches might have aroused the curiosity of the post office clerks and caused some of them to go astray. It is not the same with those that you will address to us; the Lodge asks you to send them to me directly, to the address of Messrs. Boubée & Co., merchants in Toulouse, preferring to pay the costs, whatever they may be, rather than to expose ourselves to the loss of any packet.

At the same time that the Grand Orient sends us our Constitutions, it will undoubtedly designate some Lodge that it will charge with coming to install us. We have learned recently that one existed at the Orient of Montauban, with which it was in correspondence. Would it not be possible to have it chosen in preference? You would truly support the wish of the Lodge if you...

...could succeed in this.

We will soon be thirty in number, chosen from among one hundred reputable houses that wish to affiliate with us; but we must await the arrival of the Constitutions before receiving them, which only increases our impatience and theirs. Among these houses already received, several are Rose-Croix the 18th degree in the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite. I have already communicated to you the plan to form a Sovereign Chapter, but being without Constitutions, and having had none in this Orient, we are very embarrassed about the means we should take. Can the Grand Orient grant us Constitutions for a Sovereign Chapter, and in that case can we hope to obtain them, and what means must we employ, or will we be obliged to address ourselves to the Mother Lodge, now that communications with Scotland are re-established? And in that case, could you procure an intermediary for us?