Record ID:
308624
Accession number:
MA 986.5
Credit:
Purchased by J.P. Morgan Jr., 1923.
Description:
1 item (4 p.) ; 26.8 cm
Notes:
A retained draft, headed "Au Pce royal de prusse."
Dating from Bestermann.
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:
Saying that he would not go to Prussia uninvited; telling him how he has been persecuted since he wrote The Henriade; discussing the education of Princes; drawing a parallel between Louis XIV and Frederick.
Provenance:
Purchased by J.P. Morgan Jr. from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co. in 1923.
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