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Autograph letter signed "V" : Ferney, to Claude Adrien Helvétius, 1761 Jan. 2.

BIB_ID
309654
Accession number
MA 1752.23
Creator
Voltaire, 1694-1778.
Display Date
1761 Jan. 2.
Credit line
Purchased on the Fellows Fund, 1956.
Description
1 item (3 p., with address) ; 22.9 cm
Notes
Address panel with postmark (Geneve) and addressed to Helvétius in Paris.
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
Telling him about an affair involving Jesuits who had usurped an estate near his castle; discussing his Christianity and that of philosophers.