BIB_ID
309326
Accession number
MA 986.32
Creator
Voltaire, 1694-1778.
Display Date
1749 Jan. 26.
Credit line
Purchased by J.P. Morgan Jr., 1923.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 23.3 cm
Notes
A retained draft.
Labeled "Au roi 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.
With notes on p. 1 regarding the dating of the letter.
Labeled "Au roi 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.
With notes on p. 1 regarding the dating of the letter.
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
Informing him that he received his package; sending him verses; discussing, at length, Frederick's work, particularly his epistles ("sur la vanité et sur l'intérest", "ode sur la guerre' [La Guerre présente], "epître à Hermotime" [Sur l'avantage des lettres], Ode sur votre académie [Le Rétablissement de l'académie]).
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