BIB_ID
207798
Accession number
MA 638.49
Creator
Voltaire, 1694-1778.
Display Date
1774 Aug. 20.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1900.
Description
1 item (3 p.) ; 19.8 cm
Notes
Not in Voltaire's hand, but initialled by Voltaire at the end.
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.
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.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co., 1900.
Summary
Discussing the marquis de Condorcet's Lettres d'un théologien (though he does not seem to know that Condorcet is the author); stating that he is not the author: "je ne suis pas l'auteur de la Lettre du théologien"; complaining about his poor health: "je souffre des tourments inexprimables dans mon pauvre corps qui va se dissoudre."
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