au château de Ferney 14 octb 1764
J do return the most sincere thanks to the generous author of the monthley review; he has told what j would be, rather than what j am.
Yet j must own j deserve the praise he was pleas'd to bestow upon me, when he said j am a lover of truth. My passion for truth and freedom has kindled the benevolence of a free writer who gives letters of naturality to a frenchman.
J am with a due gratitude
his most humble st
Voltaire