Letter CDXXXVI. To the Same

Letter CDXXXV in Eales's numbering.

He recommends to him a certain friend.

I am almost consumed by the flame of the affairs going on without ceasing at Rome. Would that I could be refreshed by a pleasant and much desired perusal of your writings. But alas! no writers can be found in the whole of Clairvaux for the work of [me] your servant: from a son to a father a word is sufficient. My friend, the Lord N., is both a lover of me personally, and a munificent friend to our Order: he has faithfully conducted the business with which he was charged: I trust your Benevolence will hold him dear, both for his own sake and for mine.