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Autograph letter : place not specified, to Claude Adrien Helvétius, [1763 May 15].

BIB_ID
309666
Accession number
MA 1752.28
Creator
Voltaire, 1694-1778.
Display Date
[1763 May 15].
Credit line
Purchased on the Fellows Fund, 1956.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 24.5 cm
Notes
Part of a collection of letters from Voltaire to the philosopher Claude Adrien Helvétius. Letters in the collection have been cataloged individually; see collection-level record for more information.
Some erroneous notes regarding dating on p. 1; corrected dating from Smith and Besterman.
Summary
Discussing, at length, the influence of the "gazette ecclesiastique" [Les Nouvelles ecclésiastiques] in France and how to counter it; telling him about Enlightened men and writers in Europe.