BIB_ID
119589
Accession number
MA 1765.16
Creator
Voltaire, 1694-1778.
Display Date
ca. 1754 Dec. 30.
Credit line
Purchased, 1956.
Description
1 item (3 p., with address) ; 16.7 cm
Notes
Addressed to "Michel Lambert."
Date is from published version of the letter.
This item is part of a group of letters of Voltaire; see main record for MA 1765 for a description of the collection.
With trace of a seal.
Date is from published version of the letter.
This item is part of a group of letters of Voltaire; see main record for MA 1765 for a description of the collection.
With trace of a seal.
Provenance
Laverdet sale (Paris, 2 June 1856, p. 56, no. 455); Sotheby sale (London, 12 Mar. 1902, p. 53, no. 515); Theodore Besterman.
Summary
Referring to letters that he [Lambert] received that had been opened and claiming it must have been the mischief of one of his sons as it is unlikely that the State would have opened them; referring to a reprint of a publication and to some requests in communications that appear to have gone unanswered.
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