Autograph letter : place not specified, to Claude Adrien Helvétius, [1763 May 15].

Record ID: 
309666
Accession number: 
MA 1752.28
Author: 
Voltaire, 1694-1778.
Credit: 
Purchased on the Fellows Fund, 1956.
Description: 
1 item (4 p.) ; 24.5 cm
Notes: 

Some erroneous notes regarding dating on p. 1; corrected dating from 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: 

Discussing, at length, the influence of the "gazette ecclesiastique" [Les Nouvelles ecclésiastiques] in France and how to counter it; telling him about Enlightened men and writers in Europe.