Record ID:
308626
Accession number:
MA 986.6
Credit:
Purchased by J.P. Morgan Jr., 1923.
Description:
1 item (4 p.) ; 23.1 cm
Notes:
A retained draft, headed "Au Pce royal de prusse."
Voltaire lived at the Château de Cirey, the home of Gabrielle Emilie de Breteuil, Marquise du Chatelet, from 1734-1749.
Part of a large collection of letters from Voltaire to Frederick the Great. Letters have been cataloged individually; see collection-level record for more information.
Summary:
Discussing memos Frederick sent him about the government of Czar Peter I; informing him that he is sending him a tragedy [Mérope]; saying that Frederick is much adored in France; distinguishing ideas, turn of phrase and poetic words in an attempt to instruct Frederick on how to discern the French words which belong to prose from those devoted to poetry; mentioning Wolf's metaphysics [Christian Wolff].
Provenance:
Morrison collection; Sotheby's (London, 19 April 1918), p.289, in no.1768; purchased by J.P. Morgan Jr. from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co. in 1923.
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