Georg von Löw writes that he is sending Budé another set of works by Voltaire, adding that he regrets that General Grenville has been unable to pay Löw’s debt to Budé for him.

The note reads: ‘I confimr that I will provide Mr Jean Moire with 100,000 livres either in silver or in security papers. Combined with another 100,000 livres which I have already given him for the count of S.A.S., duke of Wurttemberg, this payment constitutes the sum of 200,000 livres of which S.A.S. will pay me the life annuities that we have agreed upon.’

Voltaire writes that he has just received a letter from m. Turkheim informing him that Schoepfling has satisfied his debt and so has nothing else to do but to beg Dupont to ‘put on the sheath’ and offer him his gratitude. He then notes that he and Marie-Louis Denis [née Mignot] [née Mignot] will be spending the winter at Monrion and assures Dupont that he would be tempted to visit Colmar if there were not Jesuits. Voltaire then asks Dupont to tell Madame de Klinglin that she played a dreadful trick on him as she was at Saint-Claude just six miles from Voltaire in Délices. He adds that if she had told him he would have gone to visit her but he will now, instead, be forced to make a trip to Colmar. He concludes by syaing that new operas are being prepared in Italy, new comedies are going to be given in Paris, and a lottery of thirty million is also to be held.

Voltaire writes that he has read La Préverie’s letter dated 12 September and that he would have saved him 1400 livres if he has wanted to have the delegation served on the farmer. He adds that perhaps there would still be time. He remarks that it is an obligation passed to the Châtelet de Paris and that perhaps this debt will be considered as a debt of the priory. Furthermore, he claims, perhaps the purchaser owes money to Father MaKarty. Voltaire claims that MaKarty has a father who is well off, lives in Nantes, and works as a doctor or a surgeon in the town, adding that he knows this man is old and that one could make a seizure at his death. Voltaire then states that the recipient is on the spot and must take charge of the affair because it was upon his word that Voltaire loaned money to this wretched individual with so much good faith. He adds that it may be possible to intimidate the buyer and that he can write about it to the ministers, particularly Cardinal de Fleury.