Letters

Blaise Pascal — translated by M. L. Booth, as printed in The Harvard Classics vol. 48 (1910).

Pascal’s letters on religion: to his sister Jacqueline in the first months of the family’s conversion; two written with her to their elder sister Gilberte Périer, on the union grace makes between them; the long letter to the Périers on their father’s death, which the early editions printed as Thoughts upon Death; notes on Jacqueline’s profession at Port-Royal and on the proposed marriage of his niece; a fragment on controversy; and the nine letters to Charlotte de Roannez of 1656, on the hidden God and the miracle of the Holy Thorn.

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Contents (16)

1. To His Sister Jacqueline, 26 January 1648
2. With Jacqueline, to Their Sister Madame Périer, 1 April 1648
3. With Jacqueline, to Madame Périer, 5 November 1648
4. To M. and Madame Périer, on the Death of His Father, 17 October 1651
5. To M. Périer, on His Sister’s Profession, 6 June 1653
6. To Madame Périer, on the Proposed Marriage of Her Daughter, 1659
7. To M. Périer, a Fragment, 1661
8. To Mademoiselle de Roannez, I
9. To Mademoiselle de Roannez, II
10. To Mademoiselle de Roannez, III
11. To Mademoiselle de Roannez, IV
12. To Mademoiselle de Roannez, V
13. To Mademoiselle de Roannez, VI
14. To Mademoiselle de Roannez, VII
15. To Mademoiselle de Roannez, VIII
16. To Mademoiselle de Roannez, IX