Frederick II asks Maupertuis to send him a complete collection of all the editions of the works of Voltaire that have been printed in Paris, London, Holland and Geneva, adding that Thiériot can help him. Frederick acknowledges that he is asking for an entire library, but states simply that he wants to have it. He asks that Maupertuis have everything bound in morocco with gilded edges, and tells him to send him the account of the disbursement. In a postscript, Frederick asks if d’Argens has shown him a letter he wrote on Voltaire’s on latest work, the Nouveaux mélanges, adding that he thinks that it will be printed in the Mercure de France.