Outside: To Abate Paolo Franceschini, Rome; but inside:
My very dear Sir and Brother:
I have received the fan which you sent, which has been most welcome to
me. I accept it with pleasure and thank you for it. It displeases me
that, without reason, my parents wound the honour of our house. I for
my part am well and am happy in not having them now to stir me to
evil. I wish well to all our house, in the sacred fear of God. In fact
you may well laugh at the maledictions of my parents. Command me, who
reverence you from the bottom of my heart.
Your deeply obliged servant and sister-in-law,
FRANCESCA COMPARINI FRANCESCHINI.
AREZZO, _July 19, 1694_.