Autograph letter signed "V": place not specified, to Claude Adrien Helvétius, [1761] July 22.

Record ID: 
309662
Accession number: 
MA 1752.27
Author: 
Voltaire, 1694-1778.
Credit: 
Purchased on the Fellows Fund, 1956.
Description: 
1 item (3 p.) ; 22.9 cm
Notes: 

Year of writing added to date in an unknown hand; see Smith and Besterman.
Part of a collection of letters from Voltaire to the philosopher Claude Adrien Helvétius. Letters in the collection have been cataloged individually; see collection-level record for more information.

Summary: 

Discussing, at length, an edition of Corneille's theatre; comparing the French to Centaurs where some, like Helvétius, are men, while others, like those who bought Offices or made themselves Doctors at the Sorbonne, remain animals.