MEMORIAL BY VOLTAIRE.
"9. Do whatsoever you may please, I shall always love your Majesty
with my whole heart."

MARGINALIA BY FRIEDRICH.
"9. I love you with all my heart; I esteem you: I will do all to
have you, except follies, and things which would make me forever
ridiculous over Europe, and at bottom would he contrary to my
interests and my glory. The only commission I can give you for
France, is to advise them to behave with more wisdom than they have
done hitherto. That Monarchy is a body with much strength, but
without, soul or energy (NERF)."

And so you may give it to Valori to put in cipher, my illustrious
Messenger from the Spheres. [ OEuvres de Voltaire, italic> lxxiii. 101-105 (see Ib. ii. 55); OEuvres de
Frederic, xxii. 141-144.]

Worth reading, this, rather well. Very kingly, and characteristic
of the young Friedrich. Saved by Beaumarchais, who did not give it
in his famous Kehl Edition of VOLTAIRE, but "had it in Autograph
ever after, and printed it in his DECADE PHILOSOPHIQUE, 10
Messidor, An vii. [Summer, 1799j: Beaumarchais had several other
Pieces of the same sort;" which, as bits of contemporary
photographing, one would have liked to see.


FRIEDRIC VISITS BAIREUTH: ON A PARTICULAR ERRAND;--VOLTAIRE
ATTENDING, AND PRIVATELY REPORTING.