Record ID:
309333
Accession number:
MA 986.35
Credit:
Purchased by J.P. Morgan Jr., 1923.
Description:
1 item (4 p.) ; 23.5 cm
Notes:
A retained draft.
With notes on p. 1 regarding the dating of the letter and identifying the recipient as "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:
Discussing, at length, Frederick's epistle from Edfurth; dissuading him from comitting suicide.
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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