BIB_ID
309672
Accession number
MA 1752.31
Creator
Voltaire, 1694-1778.
Display Date
[1760] Aug. 13.
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Purchased on the Fellows Fund, 1956.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 22.5 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.
Year (1764) added to date in an unknown hand; corrected year of writing form Smith and Besterman.
Year (1764) added to date in an unknown hand; corrected year of writing form Smith and Besterman.
Summary
Discussing, at length, Helvétius' latest book [De l'Esprit: or Essays on the Mind] and its reception in England; telling him about the growing number of philosophers in France and his belief that light [the Enlightenment] will come to France; regretting that Helvétius published his book under his own name; affirming the allegiance of philosophers to the King [Louis XV].
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