Record ID:
309336
Accession number:
MA 986.37
Credit:
Purchased by J.P. Morgan Jr., 1923.
Description:
1 item (3 p.) ; 25.2 cm
Notes:
A retained draft.
Headed "au roi de Prusse."
Labeled "No. 27."
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:
Thanking him for and commenting on the medal [by Jakob Abraham] that Frederick sent him; sending him verses about peace; discussing the war between Catherine II and Mustafa III; admiring his diplomatic and military achievements; saying that he always knew that he would be a glorious king.
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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