BIB_ID
207801
Accession number
MA 638.52
Creator
Voltaire, 1694-1778.
Display Date
[1751 Feb.?].
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1900.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 22.9 cm
Notes
Recipient and date are from the published version of the letter.
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
Laverdet sale (Paris 2 juin 1856), pp. 54-55, no. 445; bought by Etienne Charavay, Sotheby sale (London 28 July 1881), p. 42, no. 433; Charavay sale (Paris 10 décembre 1881), p. 27, no. 167; Charavay sale (Paris 19 mai 1883), p. 42, no. 226; A. Meyer Cohn sale (Berlin 23 October 1905), p. 222, no. 2501; purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co., 1900.
Summary
Sending his corrections to a list of his works and drawing attention to the works falsely attributed to him; noting that he holds the rights to his works ("c'est à moy que les privilèges appartiennent.")
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