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Voltaire writes that Marin has informed him of the service the recipient is willing to render to President Hénaut, to himself, and above all to the truth, adding that for this they owe the recipient their foremost attention. He adds that the recipient is interested in this matter, and that he shall be the recipient’s agent.

Repository: Evansville Museum of Arts, History & Science, Indiana, US
Date: 21 November 1768
CMV: cmv37677

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