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This is likely the memorandum he mentions in D12326, though if this is the case then six further pages of the MS are missing. It is written as a dramatic dialogue between Boswell and Voltaire and covers topics such as language, religion, superstition, poetry, literature, and painting
Repository: Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscripts Library, Yale University, Connecticut, US
Date: December 1764
CMV: cmv32820
The letter critiques the recipient’s poetry before going on to mention a series of poets: Voltaire; Jacques Pradon; Jean Racine; William Shakespeare; John Milton; Samuel Johnson; Edmund Waller; and John Dryden.
Repository: The Bodleian Library
Date: 14 March 1811
CMV: cmv33278