BIB_ID
309645
Accession number
MA 1752.16
Creator
Voltaire, 1694-1778.
Display Date
[1741] Jan. 7.
Credit line
Purchased on the Fellows Fund, 1956.
Description
1 item (3 p.) ; 22.9 cm
Notes
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.
Year added to date in an unkown hand; see Smith and Besterman.
Year added to date in an unkown hand; see Smith and Besterman.
Summary
Saying that the King of Prussia [Frederick II] read Helvétius' epistle and appreciated it as much as he did; discussing [Emilie du Chatelet's] Institutions Physiques and [Frederick II's] Anti-Machiavel; saying that he agrees with Leibnits; mentioning [Jean-Baptiste-Louis] Gresset's possible future at the court of Frederick II.
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