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Fragment of an autograph draft of a letter : place not specified, to [Frederick the Great], [ca. 1740 May 1].

BIB_ID
308433
Accession number
MA 986.3
Creator
Voltaire, 1694-1778.
Display Date
[ca. 1740 May 1].
Credit line
Purchased by J.P. Morgan Jr., 1923.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 22.7 cm
Notes
A draft of the final third of a letter dated ca. 1 May 1740 from Voltaire to Frederick the Great.
Dating and recipient identified in Besterman.
Part of a large collection of letters from Voltaire to Frederick the Great. Letters have been cataloged individually; see collection-level record for more information.
Provenance
Charavay sale (Paris, 17 April 1880), p.11, in no.28; Morrison collection; Sotheby's (London, 19 April 1918), p.289, in no.1768; purcahsed by J.P. Morgan Jr. from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co. in 1923.
Summary
Sending verses upon the attack of gout in Keiserling's hand.