1773-10-09, de Voltaire [François Marie Arouet] à Joseph Cradock. [Elicom]

1773-10-09, de Voltaire [François Marie Arouet] à Joseph Cradock.

9^e 8^bre 1773, à Ferney

S^r,

Thanks to y^r muse a foreign copper shines,

Turn’d in to gold, and coin’d in sterling lines.

You have done to much honour to an old sick man of eighty.

I am with the most sincere esteem and gratitude

S^r

y^r obd^t serv^t

Voltaire