BIB_ID
207808
Accession number
MA 638.59
Creator
Voltaire, 1694-1778.
Display Date
1775 May 8.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1900.
Description
1 item (2 p., with address) ; 19.7 cm
Notes
Addressed to "Monsieur Le Marquis de Condorcet / Secretaire perpétuel de l'académie / des Sciences, etc."
In the hand of Voltaire's secretary, Jean Louis Wagnière.
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.
With trace of a seal.
In the hand of Voltaire's secretary, Jean Louis Wagnière.
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.
With trace of a seal.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co., 1900.
Summary
Asking him not to waste his time seeing the lawyers and to send back his letter to [Elie de] Beaumont; noting that he wants to distance himself from works imputed to him that he did not write.
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