Voltaire writes that he was finally sent the end of the eight volume and the preface by Jean-François Marmontel who is at the head of the Henriade, but that he did not receive the preface that must be placed before the edition, and which was sent to Walther almost a year ago. He asks Walther to put the preface into the packet addressed to M. Allyot, conseilleranlique a Lunéville en Lorraine. Voltaire then says that he saw a letter that Walther wrote to a friend of his, in which Walther informs the mutual acquaintance that he wished to send Voltaire a porcelain service from Saxony. Voltaire notes that he is very grateful for the proposed gift and offers his sincere thanks. He adds that he sees that Walther does not share the feelings of a Dutch bookseller, a matter which renews Voltaire’s desires to be useful to him, and informs Walther that he intends to send him his history of the present war which Voltaire estimates will be completed in a few months time. He then returns to the topic of the porcelain service, beggin Walther not to go to the expense of purchasing one for him as a few copies of Walther’s edition is enough for Voltaire, especially as Walther has spent such a large sum of money of the edition already. Voltaire asks that Walther add the small documents that he sent him to the eighth volume and assumes that Walther had an errata of volumes seven and eight made as Voltaire couldn’t personally work on these because he hadn’t seen the volumes yet. He notes that Walther will have his Semiramis but that he can’t tell him yet when he will receive them. In conclusion, Voltaire writes that he hopes that Walther will be able to make a more complete and more correct edition, with which Voltaire offers to help him. He adds that even with its errors Walther’s edition is assuredly the best, ‘or rather the only good one that we have’, and says that Walther should announce it in all of the newspapers as the only faithful edition of Voltaire’s work in Europe, and the only one that Voltaire himself approves of.