Record ID:
309285
Accession number:
MA 986.27
Credit:
Purchased by J.P. Morgan Jr., 1923.
Description:
1 item (4 p.) ; 23.1 cm
Notes:
A retained draft.
Labeled "No. 8" and "Au roi de Prusse..."
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:
Recounting his journey to La Haye [The Hague]; sending him verses about the Dutch; discussing, at length, his attempt, following Frederick's orders, to stop the publication of a manuscript [Anti Machiavel] in the hands of the printer Jean Vanduren [Van Duren].
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; purcahsed by J.P. Morgan Jr. from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co. in 1923.
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