Of precise or indisputable, on the road thither, here are fractions that will suffice:-- VOLTAIRE TO ONE BAGIEU HIS DOCTOR AT PARIS ("Berlin, 19th December," 1752, week BEFORE his AKAKIA was burnt)....

"Wish I could set out on the instant, and put myself into your hands and into the arms of my family! I brought to Berlin about a score of teeth, there remain to me something like six; I brought two eyes, I have nearly lost one of them; I brought no erysipelas, and I have got one, which I take a great deal of care of....

Meanwhile I have buried almost all my Doctors; even La Mettrie.
Remains only that I bury Codenius [Cothenius], who looks too stiff, however,"-- and, at any rate, return to you in Spring, when roads and weather improve.

[--OEuvres de Voltaire,--lxxxv.

141.] FRIEDRICH TO VOLTAIRE (Potsdam, uncertain date).