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Les deux tonneaux, esquisse d'un opera comique : contemporary manuscript copy of the play, undated [ca. 1768?].

BIB_ID
119635
Accession number
MA 650
Creator
Voltaire, 1694-1778.
Display Date
undated [ca. 1768?].
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, before 1913.
Description
1 item (37 p.), unbound ; 25.9 cm
Notes
Voltaire sent a copy of the play to André-Ernest-Modeste Grétry in August, 1768.--Cf. Voltaire and the Theatre of the Eighteenth Century by Marvin A. Carlson (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1998), p. 137.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the Londn dealer J. Pearson & Co. before 1913.
Summary
A contemporary manuscript copy of the play, with some revisions throughout.
Housed in
Blue cloth drop-spine box (28.4 cm)