Record ID:
309287
Accession number:
MA 986.28
Date:
[1740 July 25].
Credit:
Purchased by J.P. Morgan Jr., 1923.
Description:
1 item (1 p.) ; 23.1 cm
Notes:
A retained draft.
Dating from Besterman.
Labeled "No. 5" and "Au Roi de Prusse." Also labeled "a la haye" and "augte 1740," but the location and date of writing may be in another hand.
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 the publication of [Frederick's] manuscript [Anti Machiavel] and his dealings with the printer Jean Vanduren [Van Duren]; mentioning Frederick's upcoming trip to Holland.
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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