BIB_ID
119613
Accession number
MA 2020
Creator
Voltaire, 1694-1778.
Display Date
"Friday" [1726 Sept. or Oct.].
Credit line
Purchased on the Fellows Fund, 1960.
Description
1 item (1 p., with address) ; 23.1 cm
Notes
Address panel with postmarks and evidence of a seal and addressed "To master master Pope, Tuitnam."
Possible date of writing identified by Besterman. On 20 September 1726, Pope fell out of Bolingbroke's coach into the water while traveling over a bridge that collapsed.--Cf. Besterman, no. D301, n. 1.
The only surviving letter from Voltaire to Pope.
Written from "my lord Bolingbroke's house, Friday at noon."
Possible date of writing identified by Besterman. On 20 September 1726, Pope fell out of Bolingbroke's coach into the water while traveling over a bridge that collapsed.--Cf. Besterman, no. D301, n. 1.
The only surviving letter from Voltaire to Pope.
Written from "my lord Bolingbroke's house, Friday at noon."
Provenance
Purchased on the Fellows Fund, 1960.
Summary
Regretting to hear of Pope's fall, lamenting "Is it possible that those fingers which have written the rape of the lock and the Criticism, which have dressed Homer so becomingly in an english coat, should have been so barbarously treated?"
Housed in
Half red leather drop-spine box (25.2 cm)
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