Autograph letter signed with initial : "aux Délices" [Geneva], to [Élisabeth Sophie Gilly,] marquise de Jaucourt, [1764] Oct. 19.

Record ID: 
119586
Accession number: 
MA 1765.17
Author: 
Voltaire, 1694-1778.
Credit: 
Purchased, 1956.
Description: 
1 item (2 p.) ; 23.3 cm
Notes: 

Includes two additional pages of writing in an unknown hand.
Year is from published version of the letter.
This item is part of a group of letters of Voltaire; see main record for MA 1765 for a description of the collection.

Summary: 

Concerning the Philosophical Dictionary, the reaction against it and referring to its relation to his Encyclopedia.

Provenance: 
Sotheby sale (London, 8 Feb. 1901, p. 33, no. 388); Theodore Besterman.