Early January 1888
My lord,
I took a long time to thank Your Lordship for the beautiful New Year's gifts that you were kind enough to send me. All the beauties of this world would not have pleased me so much. The Child Jesus therefore did not deceive me! He said yes to me in his crib.
Monsignor, I don't believe that*
*Unfinished text, perhaps a first copy judged badly written by Thérèse.
