Record ID:
119605
Accession number:
MA 1765.1
Credit:
Purchased, 1956.
Description:
1 item (3 p.) ; 18.8 cm
Notes:
The letter is dated "mercredy 10 1737"; July is based on "mercredy 10" and the printed version of the letter.
Endorsed.
This item is part of a group of letters of Voltaire; see main record for MA 1765 for a description of the collection.
Summary:
Referring to the prizes awarded by the Royal Academy of Science; asking if he would write a letter on his behalf to Monsieur Tanevot concerning his royal pension and annuity and asking him to say that he [Voltaire] was too weak to write himself; referring to correspondence with Mssrs. de Guise, Leseau and Goebriant
Provenance:
Theodore Besterman.
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