Record ID:
119587
Accession number:
MA 1765.5
Credit:
Purchased, 1956.
Description:
1 item (3 p., with address) ; 20.7 cm
Notes:
Addressed to "Monsieur de Laleu, Secretaire / du roy notaire, rue Ste. croix / de la Bretonnerie / a Paris."
With postmark and trace of a seal.
Endorsed "Répondu Le 26 9bre et envoyé le billet de mr Demontmartel de 166400 [or 160400]."
This item is part of a group of letters of Voltaire; see main record for MA 1765 for a description of the collection.
Summary:
Thanking him for his help with his affairs and referring to his own ill health; discussing his fees and asking if he could delay payment until 1756; discussing monies owed to him.
Provenance:
Monmerqué sale (Paris, 11 Mar. 1861, p. 403, in no. 3850); Techener sale (Paris, 4 Apr. 1865, iii. 120-121, in no. 1962); Theodore Besterman.
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