BIB_ID
309649
Accession number
MA 1752.19
Creator
Voltaire, 1694-1778.
Display Date
[1741] Aug. 14.
Credit line
Purchased on the Fellows Fund, 1956.
Description
1 item (3 p., with address) ; 23.1 cm
Notes
Address panel with seal.
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 unknown hand; 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.
Year added to date in an unknown hand; see Smith and Besterman.
Summary
Saying that Helvétius is greater than Boylau [Boileau] because not only does he display literary talent, he also has an amiable character; sending him news of M. and Mme. du Chatelet.
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