BIB_ID
79898
Accession number
MA 635.1-5
Creator
Voltaire, 1694-1778.
Display Date
[ca. 1749-1776].
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1910.
Description
1 box (5 items), unbound ; 35.7 cm
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co., 1910.
Summary
Collection consists of three autograph poems, one autograph letter to M. Guys (Nov. or Dec. 1776) including a poem, and one autograph copy of a poem by Alexis Piron. Items in the collection have been described individually; see related catalog records for more information.
Housed in
Blue cloth drop-spine box (35.7 cm)
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