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Contemporary copy of 'Épître à M. De Voltaire'
Repository: Private Collection
Date: post-1740
CMV: cmv375278
Contemporary copy of 'Le pour et le contre' written on the pastedown of a copy of 'La religion defendue' published in 1733

The poem commences on the front pastedown, continues on the verso of the title page, and concludes on the back pastedown. The copy is incomplete and features several variants. The lines are divided as follows:

  • Front pastedown: l.1-12
  • Verso of title page: l.38-58
  • Back pastedown: l.115-132
Repository: Private Collection
Date: post-1733
CMV: cmv37525
Autograph letter signed from Voltaire to Antoine Augustin Calmet, written from Lunéville and dated 13 February 1748 [D3618]

Other copies of this letter date it to 15 February 1748 instead.

Repository: University of St Andrews, Special Collections - Archive Collections
Date: 13 February 1748
CMV: cmv37508
Letter from Voltaire to Heinrich von Podewils, graf von Podewils, written in the hand of Villaume from Potsdam and dated 17 March [1752] [D4838]

Voltaire asks for the comte de Podewils’ pardon for sending him some “rags in sheets”, but notes that he has only just received the necessary boxes and does not have time to have them bound.

Repository: Bibliothèque historique de la Ville de Paris (BHVP), France
Date: 17 March [1752]
CMV: cmv37505
Autograph draft of a letter from Voltaire to Otto Christoph von Podewils, graf von Podewils, written from Paris and dated '9 au soir' [January 1744] [D2914]

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
Contemporary copy of a letter from Voltaire to Johann Bernoulli featuring verse titled 'Stances sur la mort de M. Falckner décédé à Vienne le 8 mars 1739', dated 16 April 1739 [D1983]

The letter features a poem on the death of Emanuel Falckner (1718-1739), the uncle of Bernoulli.

Repository: Universitätsbibliothek, Basel
Date: 16 April 1739
CMV: cmv37462
Contemporary copy of ‘Réponse à une lettre dont le roi de Prusse honora l’auteur à son avènement à la couronne’, produced by count von Manteuffel on 21 October 1740 [D2257]

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
Italian translation of Voltaire’s ‘L’indiscret’, post-1739
Repository: Sächsische Landesbibliothek – Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek, Dresden, Germany
Date: post-1739
CMV: cmv37445
Autograph letter signed from Voltaire to to Claude Philippe Fyot, marquis de La Marche, written from Les Délices and dated 30 July [1762] [D10617]
Repository: Private Collection
Date: 30 July [1762]
CMV: cmv37410
Letter signed from Voltaire to Samuel Pechell, written in the hand of Wagnière from Ferney and dated 23 August 1776 [D20268]
Repository: Private Collection
Date: 23 August 1776
CMV: cmv37405

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