Record ID:
295366
Accession number:
MA 1565.32
Credit:
Purchased on the Fellows Fund, 1954.
Description:
1 item (6 p.) ; 20.1 cm
Notes:
Letter is dated 1738 but Besterman indicates that it is in error.
Part of a large collection of letters from Madame du Châtelet to Charles Augustin de Ferriol, comte d'Argental. Items in the collection are described in separate records; see MA 1565 for more information.
Summary:
Mentioning that Voltaire completed Zublime and telling him that it is very moving and should be a success, but underlining the necessity of staging it swiftly. Worrying about Tiriot publishing his letter to her, and asking him to prevent it.
Provenance:
Sale (Hotel Drouot, 23 Feb. 1954, item 25).
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