BIB_ID
308638
Accession number
MA 986.9
Creator
Voltaire, 1694-1778.
Display Date
1738 Apr. [ca. 25].
Credit line
Purchased by J.P. Morgan Jr., 1923.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 22 cm
Notes
A retained draft, headed "Au prince Royal de Prusse." Also headed "18e."
Apparently incomplete; the letter trails off mid-sentence and lacks closure.
Day of writing from Besterman.
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.
Apparently incomplete; the letter trails off mid-sentence and lacks closure.
Day of writing from Besterman.
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
Morrison collection; Sotheby (London, 19 April 1918), p.289, in no.1768; purcahsed by J.P. Morgan Jr. from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co. in 1923.
Summary
Criticizing, at length, Frederick's verses [Epître à la reine, Sur le printemps]; mentioning [James] Thomson's Seasons.
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