BIB_ID
207772
Accession number
MA 638.20
Creator
Voltaire, 1694-1778.
Display Date
[1758] Dec. 19.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1900.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 22.9 cm
Notes
This item is part of a collection of Voltaire letters and manuscripts; see main record (MA 638) for a description of the collection as well as individual records for other items in the collection.
Year is from the printed version of the letter.
Year is from the printed version of the letter.
Provenance
Bought by Oliver, James Baker sale, Sotheby (London 26 May 1855, p. 14, no. 126); purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co., 1900.
Summary
Advising on a play [Oreste]; complaining about "comédiens" trying to change his plays and swearing,"je vous avoue que j'aime mieux cent fois labourer mes terres comme je fais, que de me voir exposé à l'humiliation d'être corrigé et gâté par des comédiens"; discussing the purchase of land near Les Délices; mentioning the comte de la Marche [Louis-François-Joseph de Bourbon, prince de Conti].
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