BIB_ID
308749
Accession number
MA 986.15
Creator
Voltaire, 1694-1778.
Display Date
1738 Sept. 1 [i.e., ca. 1739 July 25].
Credit line
Purchased by J.P. Morgan Jr., 1923.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 18.5 cm
Notes
A retained draft.
Clearly dated "1er Sept. 1738" by Voltaire; correctly dated to ca. 25 July 1739. See 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.
Clearly dated "1er Sept. 1738" by Voltaire; correctly dated to ca. 25 July 1739. See 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
Charavay sale (Paris, 17 April 1880), p.11, in no.28; Morrison collection; 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
Sending him verses for a gift of wine from Frederick; discussing Frederick's regiment; mentioning Mahomet and La Henriade.
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