- GODEY's LADY's BOOK Philadelphia, February 1850 LETTER-WRITING AND MADAME DE SEVIGNE. BY H. T. TUCKERMAN. PART I. ONE of the most intimate and oldest friends of Madame do Sevigne, remarkable no less for excellent judgment than religious sincerity, tells her, in a letter, Votre ame est grande, noble, propre a dispenser des tresors et incapable de s abasser au soin d en amasserr. M. de Grignan, ...www.history.rochester.edu/godeys/02-50/lw.htm