BIB_ID
308754
Accession number
MA 986.19
Creator
Voltaire, 1694-1778.
Display Date
1739 [i.e., 1740] June 1.
Credit line
Purchased by J.P. Morgan Jr., 1923.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 23 cm
Notes
A retained draft, headed "Au [prince] royal de Prusse."
Corrected year from 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.
Corrected year from 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; purchased by J.P. Morgan Jr. from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co. in 1923.
Summary
Praising the latest epistle Frederick sent him about filling the void of the soul by studying; reviewing Frederick's writing about the refutation of Machiavelli; discussing his own work, chiefly Mahomet.
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