BIB_ID
308753
Accession number
MA 986.18
Creator
Voltaire, 1694-1778.
Display Date
1739 Feb. 28.
Credit line
Purchased by J.P. Morgan Jr., 1923.
Description
1 item (3 p.) ; 20.1 cm
Notes
A retained draft, headed "Au [prince] royal de Prusse."
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.
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
Discussing, at length, a scientific experiment consisting of depriving a watch of air to see if its mechanism still works; telling him about the relationship between the earth and the sun, the moon and air; sending him a revised version of La Henriade.
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