Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Collection of autograph letters signed : various places, to various recipients, 1728-1777 and undated.

BIB_ID
287087
Accession number
MA 639.1-7
Creator
Voltaire, 1694-1778.
Display Date
1728-1777 and undated.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1900.
Description
1 v. (7 items), bound ; 22.8 cm
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co. in 1900.
Summary
Collection consists of four letters from Voltaire to an unidentified woman, Chevalier d'Eon, M. Delaleu, and Madame Crammer, as well as one letter (MA 639.5) written from Maturin Veyssière a La Croze, written on behalf of the Queen of Prussia. With two engraved portraits (MA 639.6-7). Letters have been cataloged individually in five separate records; see related records for more information.