Record ID:
309324
Accession number:
MA 986.31
Credit:
Purchased by J.P. Morgan Jr., 1923.
Description:
1 item (3 p.) ; 23 cm
Notes:
A retained draft.
Labeled "Au roi de Prusse."
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:
Asking him to write him a note that he can show to Louis XV so that he can recover part of his possessions; saying that the aforesaid note should mention Frederick's satisfaction with France's position and how Voltaire is the first to speak highly of Louis XV to him.
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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