BIB_ID
308624
Accession number
MA 986.5
Creator
Voltaire, 1694-1778.
Display Date
[1737 Jan. 15].
Credit line
Purchased by J.P. Morgan Jr., 1923.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 26.8 cm
Notes
A retained draft, headed "Au Pce royal de prusse."
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
Purchased by J.P. Morgan Jr. from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co. in 1923.
Summary
Saying that he would not go to Prussia uninvited; telling him how he has been persecuted since he wrote The Henriade; discussing the education of Princes; drawing a parallel between Louis XIV and Frederick.
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