Letter from Voltaire to Adrien-Michel-Hyacinthe Blin de Sainmore, written from Ferney and dated 9 September 1766 [D13541]
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5-240 (VII, f.73), ‘A M. Blin de Saint-Maur, 9 septembre 1766, avec au dos la note autographe: [V] ‘à M. Blin de St-Maur, sur mes lettres falsifiées, dit-on, par M. Robinet’ (M. 6493)’
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Letter from Voltaire to Adrien-Michel-Hyacinthe Blin de Sainmore, written from Ferney and dated 9 September 1766 [D13541]
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Incipit Diplomatic:
Vous m’avez écrit quelquefois, Monsieur, et je vous ai répondu autant que ma santé et la faiblesse de mes yeux ont pu me le permettre. Je me souviens que je vous envoiai en 1762 des vers fort médiocres, en échange des vers fort bons que vous m’aviez adres
Incipit Modernised:
Vous m’avez écrit quelquefois, Monsieur, et je vous ai répondu autant que ma santé et la faiblesse de mes yeux ont pu me le permettre. Je me souviens que je vous envoyai en 1762 des vers fort médiocres, en échange des vers fort bons que vous m’aviez adres
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In Voltaire’s Hand:
Partly
Brief Summary:
Letter from Voltaire to Adrien-Michel-Hyacinthe Blin de Sainmore, written from château de Ferney and dated 9 September 1766.
Detailed Summary:
The writer acknowledges previous correspondence with the recipient and expresses regret that his responses have been limited by his health and vision. He recalls sending mediocre verses in 1762 in return for the recipient’s superior poetry. He requests information about Mr. Robinet, who has compiled some of his letters, and inquires about the status of a subscription to a work by Racine, which he hopes to see before his death. The letter concludes with the writer’s respectful and humble regards.
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1 f.
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2
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The manuscript is bound with other documents in contemporary red morocco.
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Voltaire endorsed MS1 ‘à M. Blin de st Maur. Sur mes lettres falsifiées dit on par M. Robinet’.
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History
Date:
9 September 1766
Ownership:
After Voltaire’s death, the MS passed into the ownership of Catherine II and remained in the imperial and then national collection thereafter.
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This MS was probably taken to St Petersburg by Wagnière in the summer of 1779 along with the rest of Voltaire’s library.
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Bibliography:
Fernand Caussy, Inventaire des manuscrits de la bibliothèque de Voltaire conservée à la bibliothèque impériale publique de Saint-Pétersbourg (Geneva, Slatkine reprints, 1970)
OCV Reference:
114, p. 425–426
OCV Manuscript Reference:
114, ‘MS1’, p. 426
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