Record ID:
119634
Accession number:
MA 639.5
Credit:
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1900.
Description:
1 item (3 p.) ; 22.4 cm
Notes:
Part of a collection of five letters from Voltaire. Letters have been cataloged individually; see collection-level record for more information.
Summary:
Written on behalf of the Queen of Prussia, thanking him for a copy of "La Henriade;" informing him that she sent him two gold medals as a token of her esteem for his work [Oedipe, Mariamme and Poème].
Provenance:
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co. in 1900.
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