BIB_ID
308593
Accession number
MA 986.4
Creator
Voltaire, 1694-1778.
Display Date
1737 Jan. [ca. 10].
Credit line
Purchased by J.P. Morgan Jr., 1923.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 23 cm
Notes
A retained draft.
Dating from Bestermann.
Part of a large collection of letters from Voltaire to Frederick the Great. Letters have been cataloged individually; see collection-level record for more information.
Dating from Bestermann.
Part of a large collection of letters from Voltaire to Frederick the Great. Letters have been cataloged individually; see collection-level record for more information.
Provenance
Charavay sale (Paris, 17 April 1880), p.11, in no.28; Morrison collection (see Morrison vi.336); Sotheby's (London, 19 April 1918), p.289, in no.1768; purchased by J.P. Morgan Jr. from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co. in 1923.
Summary
Discussing, at length, a portrait that Frederick sent him; informing him that he would like to see him in person but that, for the moment, he has to remain in Leide; mentioning Henriade and a sequel to the Mondain [Défense du Mondain].
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