BIB_ID
309338
Accession number
MA 986.39
Creator
Voltaire, 1694-1778.
Display Date
1773 Oct. 28.
Credit line
Purchased by J.P. Morgan Jr., 1923.
Description
1 item (3 p.) ; 25.9 cm
Notes
Dated "28e 8bre 1773."
Headed "au roi de Prusse."
Labeled "No. 37."
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.
Headed "au roi de Prusse."
Labeled "No. 37."
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
Telling him that [the comte de] Guibert praises Frederick since he saw him [witnessed his maneuvers in Silesiahe]; saying that he finds the "article de 'guerre" he mentioned slightly insolent by excess of humanity; discussing the ancient world.
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