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.
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