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Histoire de la guerre de 1741

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Histoire de la guerre de 1741

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Content:

  1. Notes from Voltaire’s History of War, in Sir Rowland’s hand
  2. François Marie Arouet de Voltaire: Assignments of transl of his Abridgement of Universal History and History of the War of: 1741, 1754, 1755.
  3. Old copy of the end of Chapter 1 of Histoire de la guerre de 1741 / Chapter 5 of Précis du siècle de Louis XV
  4. Untitled, autograph draft of the section on Walpole in Chapter 5 of Histoire de la guerre de 1741, with autograph corrections
  5. Untitled draft of two sections of Chapter 19 of Histoire de la guerre de 1741, possibly in the hand of Collini with autograph corrections by Voltaire
  6. Untitled, autograph draft of l.1-63 of Chapter 23 of Histoire de la guerre de 1741
  7. Old copy of Chapters 25-26 of Histoire de la guerre de 1741 / Chapters 27-28 of Précis du siècle de Louis XV concerning Admiral Anson’s journey around the globe
  8. Autograph fragment of the beginning of Chapter 25 of Histoire de la guerre de 1741
  9. Single page MS, possibly in Voltaire’s hand, corresponding to Chapter 24 of Histoire de la guerre de 1741
  10. Notes on Voltaire’s ‘History of the War of 1741’ (1756), Adam Ferguson’s ‘An Essay on the History of Civil Society’ (1767), and Sir Isaac Newton, undated

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