Record ID:
308658
Accession number:
MA 986.12
Credit:
Purchased by J.P. Morgan Jr., 1923.
Description:
1 item (3 p.) ; 32.2 cm
Notes:
A retained draft, headed "Au [prince] royal de Prusse" and "20e."
Dated "commencement juin 1738;" corrected dating from Besterman.
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:
Informing him that he received a packet with his work ("le philosofe guerrier" and "epîtres à mrs de Keiserling et Jordan" [The Epître à Césarion and the first Epître à Jordan]); briefly reviewing them; sending him one of his epistles [The sixth Discours sur l'homme]; discussing, at length, Frederick's campaign and Cirey.
Provenance:
Charavay sale (Paris, 17 April 1880), p.11, in no.28; 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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