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.
Informing him that he is busy with his work; saying that he read a héroïde d'un disciple de Socrate [Jean François Marmontel, Un Disciple de Socrate, aux Athéniens, héroïde]; mentioning sending him a Pierre [Histoire de Pierre le Grand]; telling him that he is in the process of dispossessing some Jesuits of an estate they usurped near his castle; saying that Madame de Pompadour and the Duc de Choiseuil are protecting him; declaring that he is a faithful subject of the King [Louis XV].