Autograph letter from Voltaire to Nicolas Claude Thieriot, dating to c.February 1729 [D344]
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CMV34310
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FS 316 C 9, ‘Lettre de Voltaire à Nicolas-Claude Thieriot [texte manuscrit]’
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Autograph letter from Voltaire to Nicolas Claude Thieriot, dating to c.February 1729 [D344]
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Incipit Diplomatic:
Gratissima nobis fuit epistola tua amice carissime — but again and again do not bable out you have any correspondency with me, let our private intercourse be the more friendly, the more it will be kept secret.
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In Voltaire’s Hand:
Yes
Brief Summary:
Autograph letter from Voltaire to Nicolas Claude Thieriot, dating to c.February 1729.
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Physical Description
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2 ff.
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242 x 193 mm
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2
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A second, unknown hand has added the date ‘1729’ to the MS. There is a minor correction to l.7 of f.1r in the form of a crossing out and the addition of corrected text superscript. A word on l.14 of f.2r has likewise been crossed out.
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History
Date:
c.February 1729
Ownership:
Owned by Philippe Charles François Pavée, Marquis de Villevielle (1738-1825), Corneille Jacobsen, and Alfred Morrison (1821-1897). Possibly also part of the Pougens collection (see Dernier volume, p.319 n), but the letter was printed in that volume (p.321
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Presumably passed at the Sotheby sale in London on 19 April 1918 (Lot. 1768).
Bibliography
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Jeroom Vercruysse, Inventaire raisonné des manuscrits Voltairiens de la Bibliothèque royale Albert Ier, vol.2 (Turnhout, 1983) p.11.
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