Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Autograph letter signed with initial : place not specified, to Michel Lambert, ca. 1754 Dec. 30.

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.
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.