Record ID:
309326
Accession number:
MA 986.32
Credit:
Purchased by J.P. Morgan Jr., 1923.
Description:
1 item (4 p.) ; 23.3 cm
Notes:
A retained draft.
Labeled "Au roi de Prusse."
With notes on p. 1 regarding the dating of the letter.
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 his package; sending him verses; discussing, at length, Frederick's work, particularly his epistles ("sur la vanité et sur l'intérest", "ode sur la guerre' [La Guerre présente], "epître à Hermotime" [Sur l'avantage des lettres], Ode sur votre académie [Le Rétablissement de l'académie]).
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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