Record ID:
309672
Accession number:
MA 1752.31
Credit:
Purchased on the Fellows Fund, 1956.
Description:
1 item (4 p.) ; 22.5 cm
Notes:
Year (1764) added to date in an unknown hand; corrected year of writing form 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, Helvétius' latest book [De l'Esprit: or Essays on the Mind] and its reception in England; telling him about the growing number of philosophers in France and his belief that light [the Enlightenment] will come to France; regretting that Helvétius published his book under his own name; affirming the allegiance of philosophers to the King [Louis XV].
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