RACINE Louis (1692-1763) fils de Jean Racine ; auteur de poèmes d'inspiration janséniste et de mémoires sur son père. L.A.S. "Racine", May 1, 1758, to Dr. HEERKENS in Groningen; 3 pages small in 4, address, red wax seal (broken). On the news of the time, and the next election of Lefranc de Pompignan to the Academy. About the seeds sent to the brother of Heerkens, who himself provided Racine with "some seeds of a flower unknown to me. I sowed it a month ago on a bed and under a bell"... He would read with pleasure the gazette of Heerkens. "We all long for peace, and we are in great need of it. Money is becoming very scarce, and our King, who after all that he has borrowed, still needs to borrow, has difficulty finding [...] If the peace of Europe is still distant, that of the Church is too "... The Marquis de BOISSY who directed the Mercure is dead, and his place at the French Academy should be "for M. LE FRANC, who since his marriage, is called M. de POMPIGNAN [...] this place suits him and the academy cannot choose better"... He wishes Heerkens a brilliant fortune in his new activity as a merchant...