Record ID:
294915
Accession number:
MA 640.39
Credit:
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1910.
Description:
1 item (2 p.) ; 23 cm
Notes:
Part of a collection of letters from Frederick II, King of Prussia, to various recipients. Letters in the collection are described in individual records; see MA 640 for more information.
Summary:
Noting that at present many affairs require his attention; remarking that nothing can shock him after what he has seen in this "monstrous century"; saying that his books from Berlin are his consolation in Breslau; reporting that he read Charles Batteux's Les Beaux-arts réduites à un même principe; discussing [Nicolas] Boileau, Virgil, [Jean-Jacques] Rousseau, [Jean] Racine, Homer, [Pierre] Corneille, [Joseph de] La Grange-Chancel, [Claude-Prosper Jolyot de] Crébillon, and Voltaire.
Provenance:
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the Berlin dealer Amsler & Ruthardt, 1910.
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