Origin: Charlottenburg, Berlin, Germany

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The poem is introduced with a note reading: ‘M. de Voltaire, malade en 1760 à Charlottenburg envoya ces vers par un page que la reine mère lui avait envoyé pour savoir de ses nouvelles’. This is false as Voltaire was not at Charlottenburg at that time.

Repository: Großherzogliche Hausarchiv, Darmstadt, Germany
Date: 1760
CMV: cmv36447

The letter has been encoded, with the numerical code running beneath the text.

Repository: McGill University
CMV: cmv35418
Repository: Geheimes Staatsarchiv Preußischer Kulturbesitz / Prussian Privy State Archives
Date: 24 May 1770
CMV: cmv36945

This MS consists of the first four pages only. The concluding pages were owned by Theodore Besterman.

Repository: Geheimes Staatsarchiv Preußischer Kulturbesitz / Prussian Privy State Archives
Date: 27 June 1740
CMV: cmv37003