Voltaire claims that he is writing to de Bruel again in order to repeat how awful it is for him to be close to dying and without a way to pay his workers, especially when the printing house at Bouillon owes him more than nine years of arrears. He asks that de Bruel gives him delegations or long-term bills of exchange, otherwise his ‘colony’ would be destroyed. He begs de Bruel to spare him the pain and inconvenience of leaving a lawsuit to his heirs.