BIB_ID
374950
Accession number
MA 1765.13
Creator
Voltaire, 1694-1778.
Display Date
1770 July 13.
Credit line
Purchased, 1956.
Description
1 item (1 p., with address) ; 19.6 cm
Notes
Addressed to "Monsieur George Gray etc. / Poland Street / London."
Endorsed.
In the hand of Voltaire's secretary, Jean Louis Wagnière.
This item is part of a group of letters of Voltaire; see main record for MA 1765 for a description of the collection.
With postmark and seal.
Endorsed.
In the hand of Voltaire's secretary, Jean Louis Wagnière.
This item is part of a group of letters of Voltaire; see main record for MA 1765 for a description of the collection.
With postmark and seal.
Provenance
Quaritch (London, Sept. 1886, p. 3519, no. 35901); Theodore Besterman.
Summary
Thanking him for the honor and pleasure he has given him; saying he always felt the story of the apple deserved "dogrel rhimes" and that he has found the angel Gabriel boring; adding that Paradise Lost is the work of an eloquent fanatic but that his is a work of a man of the world.
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