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The letter contains a copy of a short verse titled ‘À Mme la Duchesse de ***’. The lines of the poem have been added to the bottom of f.97v in two columns of four lines each.

Repository: Bibliothèque historique de la Ville de Paris (BHVP), France
Date: 9 au soir [January 1744]
CMV: cmv37474

Count von Manteuffel sent this copy of the poem to Count von Brühl from Berlin on 21 October 1740.

Repository: Sächsische Landesbibliothek – Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek, Dresden, Germany
Date: 21 October 1740
CMV: cmv37456

In his sarcastic and humorous letter, Voltaire opens by saying that the bishops do not want to do good because the worldy people do it, adding that these are pleasant maxims. He asks if Chennevières will have a pension on the condition that he is unhappy, and adds that this is pleasant charity. Voltaire then expresses his wishes that 1760 will be a happy year, noting that God has given ample harvests, de Broglie will give ‘Te Deums’, and that there will be peace.

Repository: Private Collection
Date: 22 [December 1759]
CMV: cmv37359

The MS includes a number of pre-1739 variants, along with a new reading of l.82 as ‘artistement orné’.

Repository: Bibliothèque historique de la Ville de Paris (BHVP), France
Date: c.1739
CMV: cmv37101

The copy is found in a recueil of diverse theatre parts taken from a number of plays. The plays all seem to have been performed at the Château de Berny, home of the comte de Clermont.

Repository: Bibliothèque de l'Arsenal, Paris, France
Date: c.18th
CMV: cmv36644

This copy of the “fourth” London edition of 1728 includes a dedication in Voltaire’s hand that is dated 25 April 1728. In the dedication, Voltaire presents the edition to Queen Caroline, adding that he waited until the fourth edition was ready to send a copy of the work to the Queen as it was ‘plus correcte et plus épurée’. Despite his assertions in this dedication, Voltaire had written ten days earlier to present the Queen with a first edition copy of the work.

Voltaire’s dedication is, unusually, bound at the back of the volume and is upside down.

Repository: The Bodleian Library
Date: c.1728
CMV: cmv36681

The letter was found within a copy of Voltaire’s Essai sur l’histoire universelle, tome troisième : contenant les temps depuis Charles VII roi de France jusqu’à l’empereur Charlesquint (Leipzig & Dresden, 1754), housed at the BCU Lausanne (1D 110 Armoire 46). This book contains numerous additions in a secretarial hand, themselves corrected by Voltaire, which were written on separate slips of paper and affixed to the book.

Repository: Bibliothèque cantonale et universitaire de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
Date: 18 [February 1755]
CMV: cmv36270