BIB_ID
309292
Accession number
MA 986.29
Creator
Voltaire, 1694-1778.
Display Date
[1740 July 10].
Credit line
Purchased by J.P. Morgan Jr., 1923.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 20.1 cm
Notes
A retained draft.
Dating from Besterman.
Labeled "Au Roi de Prusse" and "17A."
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.
Dating from Besterman.
Labeled "Au Roi de Prusse" and "17A."
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
Discussing Frederick's possible trip to France; inquiring whether Emilie du Châtelet may come to Cleves.
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