BIB_ID
309621
Accession number
MA 1752.6
Creator
Voltaire, 1694-1778.
Display Date
[1739 Jan. or Feb.] 19.
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Purchased on the Fellows Fund, 1956.
Description
1 item (3 p.) ; 22.6 cm
Notes
Letter is partially written in the unknown hand of a secretary.
Month (Feb.) and year of writing added to date. Smith corrects the month of writing to January. See Smith and Besterman.
Part of a collection of letters from Voltaire to the philosopher Claude Adrien Helvétius. Letters in the collection have been cataloged individually; see collection-level record for more information.
Month (Feb.) and year of writing added to date. Smith corrects the month of writing to January. See Smith and Besterman.
Part of a collection of letters from Voltaire to the philosopher Claude Adrien Helvétius. Letters in the collection have been cataloged individually; see collection-level record for more information.
Summary
Complimenting him on his philosophical epistles and his moral actions; discussing, at length, a lampoon against himself and a piece of writing against abbé Desfontaines; sending him a review of his memo; being adamant about being a French man and saying that he is determined to live and die in France among his friends.
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