BIB_ID
309675
Accession number
MA 1752.33
Creator
Voltaire, 1694-1778.
Display Date
1766 Oct. 27.
Credit line
Purchased on the Fellows Fund, 1956.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 23.2 cm
Notes
Dated "27e 8bre 1766" by Voltaire.
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.
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 of his hope to see him before he dies; discussing, at length, the publication of The Philosophe Ignorant; sending him a piece of writing: "Brochure d'un avocat de Besançon" [Commentaire sur le livre "Des Délits et des peines", par un avocat de province]; telling him about the benefits of anonymity; speaking disapprovingly of Jean-Jacques Rousseau.
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