"If I were well, I would take a run to Frankfurt myself on the business,"-- now that Soubise's reserves are in those parts, and could give Freytag and Schmidt such a dusting for me, if they liked! Shall I write to Collini on it?
Does write, and again write, the second year hence, as still better chances rise.

[Collini, pp.

208-211 ("January-May, 1759").] 3.

WILHELMINA TO VOLTAIRE AGAIN, WITH ANSWER (Second of the Prose Pieces) .-- Not a very zealous friend of Friedrich's, after all, this Voltaire! Poor Wilhelmina, terrified by that EPITRE of her Brother's, and his fixed purpose of seeking Death, has, in her despair (though her Letter is lost), been urging Voltaire to write dissuading him;--as Voltaire does.

Of which presently.