Record ID:
309331
Accession number:
MA 986.34
Credit:
Purchased by J.P. Morgan Jr., 1923.
Description:
1 item (3 p.) ; 23.1 cm
Notes:
A retained draft.
Labeled "response au Roi de Prusse."
Year of writing from note on p. 1 and 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:
Commenting on Frederick's gloomy epistle to Dargens which he wrote under difficult military circumstances and where he contemplated suicide; saying that Frederick's soul and courage are superior to the events he is faced with; telling him that he has more glory than ever; saying that it is necessary that he lives for his family, his States and the philosophers.
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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