Voltaire expresses concern for the health of the recipient, noting that he loves both Wilhelmine and her brother Frederick II, King of Prussia. Voltaire adds that if Wilhelmine had been in better health, he would have written of the Marquis d’Adhemar who hasn’t yet resolved to leave Paris, of Nicolas Liébault, a wise and educated man of letters. He notes that he wishes he could come to her, but that the diseases that overwhelm him make him sedentary and force him to remain in his cell. He concludes by remarking on the unfairness of Wilhelmine’s illness.