In this letter, Capponi writes that he is grateful to have received Voltaire’s letter and the accompanying copy of La Poeme de Fontenoy. He notes his own insufficient poetic talents before praising La Poeme. He adds that if the post were more secure, he would send Voltaire some of his antiquarian works but remarks that he believes a dissertation he wrote and sent to the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres in Paris in March 1745 was lost in the post as he has not received a reply.