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Voltaire has added a postscript in his own hand.

Repository: Voltaire Foundation
Date: 28 January 1772
CMV: cmv37624

The letter is signed ‘V’, but this appears to have been added by Wagnière rather than Voltaire.

Repository: Voltaire Foundation
Date: 26 January 1772
CMV: cmv37623
Repository: Voltaire Foundation
Date: 21 October 1771
CMV: cmv37620

The text of this MS is close to the clandestine editions of the text produced in 1784. Marginal notes restore the text to the original version (CMV37555). The MS is part of a bound collection known to have been used by the Kehl editors.

Repository: Bibliothèque historique de la Ville de Paris (BHVP), France
Date: c.1784
CMV: cmv37558

A leaf containing notes about Madame de Boufflers, attributed to Saint-Lambert, has been inserted between p.76 and p.77.

Repository: Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris, France
Date: c.1760
CMV: cmv37556

The letter begins with a poem known as ‘À monsieur le maréchal duc de Richelieu’. The verse is in Collini’s hand. The prose and date line are in Voltaire’s hand.

Repository: Bibliothèque historique de la Ville de Paris (BHVP), France
Date: 3 May 1756
CMV: cmv37545