BIB_ID
191532
Accession number
MA 4801 (40)
Creator
Voltaire, 1694-1778.
Display Date
[ca. 1750].
Credit line
Gift of Mrs. Charles Wrightsman, 1993.
Description
1 item (1 p.)
Notes
Item 1126 in the Wrightsman gift.
Signed "Voltaire."
Signed "Voltaire."
Provenance
Louis Dériard (with stamp); Mrs. Charles Wrightsman.
Summary
Saying, "One is going to play incessantly with Oreste. I have a pressing need for Pausanias of Abbe Gedouin [Godoyn, who translated Orestes in 1731] in order not to make errors in Greek geography; also the works of Lagrange [Lagrange-Chancel] that I may have no trouble with him. If Mr. Lambert is able to find these books and to add to them Aristotle's Technique of Poetry, I shall be very obliged to him. I need these books by Wednesday morning at the latest. I beg of him to do me this kindness immediately."
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