BIB_ID
284625
Accession number
MA 1765.1-21
Creator
Voltaire, 1694-1778.
Display Date
1737 July 10-1778 Jan. 17.
Credit line
Purchased, 1956.
Description
1 v. (21 items), bound : ill. (ports.) ; 43.7 cm
Notes
Many letters with address and seal; some letters with postmark.
Some letters are in the hand of Voltaire's secretary, Jean-Louis Wagnière.
Some letters are in the hand of Voltaire's secretary, Jean-Louis Wagnière.
Provenance
Theodore Besterman.
Summary
Collection includes letters from Voltaire to Bernard Louis Chauvelin; the Conseil de régence de Montbéliard; Jacques Vincent Delacroix; Joseph François Edouard de Corsembleu Desmahis; Sébastien Dupont; George Gray; Élisabeth Sophie Gilly, marquise de Jaucourt; Guillaume Claude de Laleu; Michel Lambert (three letters); Henri Louis Lekain; Adrien Quiret de Margency; Claude Henri Feydeau de Marville; Pierre de Morand; Bonaventure Moussinot; Ambroise Elisabeth Ravoisier; François Robert; Jean Signy; and Nicolas-Claude Thieriot. The collection also includes a memorandum on the building of the church at Ferney in Wagnière's hand with an endorsement by Voltaire and an autograph letter signed from René-Nicolas-Charles-Augustin de Maupeou to Voltaire. Items in the collection are described in 21 separate records (MA 1765.1-21).
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