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Autograph draft a letter : place not specified, to Frederick the Great, [1759 Aug. 1].

BIB_ID
309335
Accession number
MA 986.36
Creator
Voltaire, 1694-1778.
Display Date
[1759 Aug. 1].
Credit line
Purchased by J.P. Morgan Jr., 1923.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 23.8 cm
Notes
A retained draft.
Dating from Besterman.
Headed "lettre 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.
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; commenting on Frederick's verses and "Akakia papal."