Record ID:
308813
Accession number:
MA 986.22
Credit:
Purchased by J.P. Morgan Jr., 1923.
Description:
1 item (2 p.) ; 19.7 cm
Notes:
A retained draft, haded "Au [prince] royal de Prusse."
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:
Referencing a passage from Frederick's original Refutation of Machiavelli; mentioning the political life in the Two Sicilies; alluding to the war between England and Spain [30 October 1739]; thanking him for a medicine.
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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