Voltaire asks if de Beaumont can charge himself with 12000 livres for six months. He adds that it will be available the moment de Beaumont wants it.

Voltaire writes that he is very angry with Jacob Bouthillier de Beaumont as he invited Emmanuel Bernoulli to dinner instead of him. He then discusses money, saying that he accepts de Beaumont’s proposal. He writes that de Beaumont can keep 15,000 livres but should send Voltaire ten ‘louis légers’ and an additional 291 livres tournoi. Voltaire ends by saying that when he needs money he will ask de Beaumont for it.