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The Morgan Library & Museum, MA 0638

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Collection name:

The Morgan Library & Museum, MA 0638

Collection type:

Physical

Content:

  1. Document signed by Voltaire’s father, François Arouet, acknowledging receipt of money from Maurice Durant de Chalar
  2. Document signed by Voltaire acknowledging the receipt of a contract
  3. Autograph letter signed from Voltaire to Claude-Henri Feydeau (comte) de Marville, dating to c.1 September 1744 [D3024]
  4. Autograph letter signed from Voltaire to Nicolas-Claude Thiériot, written from Cirey and dated 11 September 1735 [D911]
  5. Autograph letter signed from Voltaire to Count Francesco Algarotti, dated 22 [March 1738] [D1471]
  6. Autograph letter signed from Voltaire to Jean Vasserot de Châteauvieux, written from Tournay and dated 30 [July 1759][D8409]
  7. Autograph letter from Voltaire to Charles-Jean-François Hénault, written from Brussels and dated 15 May 1741 [D2482]
  8. Autograph manuscript celebrating Louis XV’s capture of Gand
  9. Autograph letter signed from Voltaire to François-Augustin Paradis de Moncrif, dated ‘mercredy’ [20 April 1746] [D3365]
  10. Autograph letter signed from Voltaire to an unknown recipient, likely written from Paris and dating to [1747?] [D3547]
  11. Autograph letter signed from Voltaire to François-Thomas Marie de Baculard d’ Arnaud, written from Cirey and dated 2 January 1749 [D3837]
  12. Autograph letter signed from Voltaire to Sophia Friderike Wilhelmina von Preussen, margravine of Bayreuth, written c.12 December 1750 [D4295]
  13. Autograph letter signed from Voltaire to Sophia Friderike Wilhelmina von Preussen, margravine of Bayreuth, dated 30 January [1751] [D4364]
  14. Autograph letter signed from Voltaire to George Conrad Walther, written from Potsdam and dated 6 March [1752] [D4826]
  15. Autograph letter signed from Voltaire to an unknown recipient, written from Potsdam and dated 14 April [1752] [D4866]
  16. Autograph manuscript titled ‘Ami de la liberté’ written by Voltaire from Frankfurt and dated 22 June 1752
  17. Autograph letter signed from Voltaire to Claude Henri de Fuzée de Voisenon, written from Aux Délices and dated 24 July [1756] [D6949]
  18. Autograph letter signed from Voltaire to Elie Bertrand, written from Aux Délices and dated 20 April 1756 [D6841]
  19. Autograph letter signed from Voltaire to Charles Augustin Feriol, comte d’Argental, written from Aux Délices and dated 19 December 1758 [D7988]
  20. Autograph letter signed from Voltaire to Louise Suzanne Gallatin [née Vaudenet], written from Aux Délices and dated [c.5 January 1759] [D8031]
  21. Autograph letter signed from Voltaire to Nicolas-Claude Thiériot, written from Aux Délices and dated 4 January 1760 [D8694]
  22. Autograph letter signed from Voltaire to Luise Dorothea, Herzogin von Sachsen-Gotha-Altenburg, written from Nyon and date 15 February [1760] [D8758]
  23. Autograph letter signed from Voltaire to Luise Dorothea, Herzogin von Sachsen-Gotha-Altenburg, written from Geneva and dated 11 March [1760] [D8802]
  24. Autograph letter signed from Voltaire to Luise Dorothea, Herzogin von Sachsen-Gotha-Altenburg, dated 21 March 1760 [D8812]
  25. Autograph letter signed from Voltaire to Jean-François Joly de Fleury, written from Aux Délices and dated 3 May 1760 [D8889]
  26. Letter signed from Voltaire to Louis Gaspard Fabry, written in the hand of Wagnière from Ferney and dated 29 August 1760 [D9174]
  27. Autograph letter signed from Voltaire to Cosimo Alessandro Collini, written from Ferney and dated 20 September 1762 [D10715]
  28. Autograph letter signed from Voltaire to Paul Claude Moultou, dated 22 July 1769 [D15769]
  29. Letter from Voltaire to Marie-Jean-Antoine-Nicolas de Caritat, marquis de Condorcet and Jean Le Rond d’Alembert, written in the hand of Jean-Louis Wagnière and dated 11 October 1770 [D16695]
  30. Letter signed from Voltaire to Charles Pinot Duclos, written in the hand of Wagnière from Ferney and dated 20 August 1770 [D16601]
  31. Letter signed from Voltaire to Marie-Jean-Antoine-Nicolas de Caritat, marquis de Condorcet, written in the hand of Wagnière and dated 5 December 1770 [D16804]
  32. Letter signed from Voltaire to Marie-Jean-Antoine-Nicolas de Caritat, marquis de Condorcet, written in the hand of Wagnière from Ferney and dated 6 January 1771 [D16941]
  33. Letter signed from Voltaire to Marie-Jean-Antoine-Nicolas de Caritat, marquis de Condorcet, written in the hand of Wagnière and date 28 January 1772 [D17572]
  34. Letter signed from Voltaire to Marie-Jean-Antoine-Nicolas de Caritat, marquis de Condorcet, written in the hand of Wagnière and dated [11 May 1772] [D17737]
  35. Letter from Voltaire to Marie-Jean-Antoine-Nicolas de Caritat, marquis de Condorcet, written in the hand of Wagnière from [Ferney] and dated 1 March 1773 [D18232]
  36. Copy of a letter from Trophime Gérard de Lally-Tollendal, chevalier de Lally-Tollendal to Voltaire, written from Paris and dated 14 April 1773 [D18318]
  37. Draft of a letter from Voltaire to Trophime Gérard de Lally-Tollendal, chevalier de Lally-Tollendal, written at Ferney in the hand of Wagnière with autograph corrections by Voltaire, and dated 28 April 1773 [D18341]
  38. Letter signed from Voltaire to Marie-Jean-Antoine-Nicolas de Caritat, marquis de Condorcet, written in the hand of Wagnière and dated 23 May 1773 [D18392]
  39. Letter signed from Voltaire to Trophime Gérard de Lally-Tolendal, chevalier de Lally-Tolendal, written in a secretarial hand from Ferney and dated 24 May 1773 [D18394]
  40. Letter signed from Voltaire to Marie-Jean-Antoine-Nicolas de Caritat, marquis de Condorcet, written in the hand of Wagnière and dated 4 August 1773 [D18496]
  41. Autograph letter signed from Voltaire to Joseph Cradock, written from Ferney and dated 9 October 1773. The letter is accompanied by its envelope [D18580]
  42. Letter signed from Voltaire to Marie-Jean-Antoine-Nicolas de Caritat, marquis de Condorcet, written in the hand of Wagnière and dated 16 November 1773 [D18628]
  43. Letter signed from Voltaire to Marie-Jean-Antoine-Nicolas de Caritat, marquis de Condorcet, written in the hand of Wagnière from [Ferney] and dated 5 December 1773 [D18664]
  44. Letter signed from Voltaire to Marie-Jean-Antoine-Nicolas de Caritat, marquis de Condorcet, written in the hand of Wagnière and dated 24 December 1773 [D18705]
  45. Autograph letter signed from Voltaire to Marie-Jean-Antoine-Nicolas de Caritat, marquis de Condorcet, dated 4 May 1774 [D18923]
  46. Letter signed from Voltaire to Marie Jean Antoine Nicolas de Caritat, written in the hand of Wagnière and dated 18 July 1774 [D19028]
  47. Copy of a letter from Voltaire to Marie-Jean-Antoine-Nicolas de Caritat, marquis de Condorcet, written in the hand of Wagnière with autograph corrections by Voltaire, dated 12 August 1774 [D19074]
  48. Letter signed from Voltaire to Marie-Jean-Antoine-Nicolas de Caritat, marquis de Condorcet, dated 20 August 1774 [D19090]
  49. Letter from Voltaire to Marie-Jean-Antoine-Nicolas de Caritat, marquis de Condorcet, written in the hand of Wagnière and dated 23 November 1774 [D19196]
  50. Letter from Voltaire to Marie-Jean-Antoine-Nicolas de Caritat, marquis de Condorcet, written in the hand of Wagnière and dated 7 December 1774 [D19212]
  51. Autograph letter signed from Voltaire to Michel Lambert, dating to [February 1751] [D4382]
  52. Letter signed from Voltaire to Jean Le Rond d’Alembert and Marie-Jean-Antoine-Nicolas de Caritat, marquis de Condorcet, written in the hand of Wagnière from Ferney and dated 16 January 1775 [D19291]
  53. Letter signed from Voltaire to Marie-Jean-Antoine-Nicolas de Caritat, marquis de Condorcet, written in the hand of Wagnière and dated 26 February 1775 [D19356]
  54. Letter signed from Voltaire to Marie-Jean-Antoine-Nicolas de Caritat, marquis de Condorcet, written in the hand of Wagnière from Ferney and dated 21 April 1775 [D19432]
  55. Letter signed from Voltaire to Marie-Jean-Antoine-Nicolas de Caritat, marquis de Condorcet, written in the hand of Wagnière and dated 24 April 1775 [D19434]
  56. Letter from Voltaire to Marie Jean Antoine Nicolas de Caritat, written in the hand of Wagnière and dated 26 April 1775 [D19438]
  57. Letter from Voltaire to Marie-Jean-Antoine-Nicolas de Caritat, marquis de Condorcet, written in the hand of Wagnière and dated 4 May 1775 [D19458]
  58. Letter signed from Voltaire to Marie-Jean-Antoine-Nicolas de Caritat, marquis de Condorcet, written in the hand of Wagnière and dated 8 May 1775 [D19464]
  59. Letter signed from Voltaire to Marie-Jean-Antoine-Nicolas de Caritat, marquis de Condorcet, written in the hand of Wagnière and dated 7 August 1775 [D19593]
  60. Letter signed from Voltaire to Marie-Jean-Antoine-Nicolas de Caritat, marquis de Condorcet, written in the hand of Wagnière and dated 27 January 1776 [D19883]
  61. Letter signed from Voltaire to Marie-Jean-Antoine-Nicolas de Caritat, marquis de Condorcet, written in the hand of Wagnière and dated 16 February 1776 [D19933]
  62. Letter signed from Voltaire to Marie-Jean-Antoine-Nicolas de Caritat, marquis de Condorcet, written in the hand of Wagnière and dated 26 February 1776 [D19953]
  63. Letter from Voltaire to Marie-Jean-Antoine-Nicolas de Caritat, marquis de Condorcet, written in the hand of Wagnière and dated 28 February 1776 [D19960]
  64. Letter from Voltaire to Marie-Jean-Antoine-Nicolas de Caritat, marquis de Condorcet, written in the hand of Wagnière and dated 1 March 1776 [D19962]
  65. Letter from Voltaire to Marie-Jean-Antoine-Nicolas de Caritat, marquis de Condorcet, written in the hand of Wagnière and dated 6 March 1776 [D19970]
  66. Letter from Voltaire to Marie Jean Antoine de Caritat, marquis de Condorcet, written in the hand of Wagnière and dated 16 March 1776 [D19994]
  67. Copy of a letter from Voltaire to Marie-Jean-Antoine-Nicolas de Caritat, marquis de Condorcet, dated 3 April 1776 [D20042]
  68. Letter signed from Voltaire to Marie-Jean-Antoine-Nicolas de Caritat, marquis de Condorcet, written in the hand of Wagnière and dated 5 June 1776 [D20151]
  69. Letter from Voltaire to Marie-Jean-Antoine-Nicolas de Caritat, marquis de Condorcet, written in the hand of Wagnière and dated 11 July 1776 [D20213]
  70. Letter signed from Voltaire to Marie-Jean-Antoine-Nicolas de Caritat, marquis de Condorcet, written in the hand of Wagnière and dated 7 September 1776 [D20282]
  71. Letter from Voltaire to Marie-Jean-Antoine-Nicolas de Caritat, marquis de Condorcet, written in the hand of Wagnière and dated 18 October 1776 [D20354]
  72. Letter from Voltaire to Marie-Jean-Antoine-Nicolas de Caritat, marquis de Condorcet, written in the hand of Wagnière and dated 22 November 1776 [D20415]
  73. Letter from Voltaire to Marie-Jean-Antoine-Nicolas de Caritat, marquis de Condorcet, written in the hand of Wagnière and dated 6 December 1776 [D20453]
  74. Letter signed from Voltaire to Marie-Jean-Antoine-Nicolas de Caritat, marquis de Condorcet, written in the hand of Wagnière and dated 8 January 1777 [D20507]
  75. Letter from Voltaire to Marie-Jean-Antoine-Nicolas de Caritat, marquis de Condorcet, written in the hand of Wagnière and dated 28 February 1777 [D20583]
  76. Letter from Voltaire to Marie-Jean-Antoine-Nicolas de Caritat, marquis de Condorcet, written in the hand of Wagnière and dated 9 April 1777 [D20632]
  77. Letter from Voltaire to Marie-Jean-Antoine-Nicolas de Caritat, marquis de Condorcet, written in the hand of Wagnière and dated 2 July 1777 [D20717]
  78. Partially autograph letter signed from Voltaire to Marie Jean Antoine de Caritat, marquis de Condorcet, written from Ferney and dated 22 October 1777 [D20850]
  79. Letter from Voltaire to Marie-Jean-Antoine-Nicolas de Caritat, marquis de Condorcet, written in the hand of Wagnière and dated 24 November 1777 [D20919]
  80. Letter from Voltaire to Marie Jean Antoine de Caritat, marquis de Condorcet, written in the hand of Wagnière and dated 12 January 1778 [D20979]
  81. Autograph letter from Voltaire to Ivan Ivanovich Shuvalov, written from Schwetzingen and dated 17 July 1758 [D7792]
  82. Autograph letter signed from Voltaire to Pierre Joseph Alaray, dated ‘Samedy’ [c.16 April 1746] [D3362]
  83. Autograph letter signed from Voltaire to Marie Françoise Renée de Carbonnel de Canisy, comtesse de Forcalquier, dated ‘ce lundy’ [c.30 June 1745] [D3165]
  84. Autograph note from Voltaire to Louise Suzanne Gallatin [née Vaudenet], written c.August-September 1759 [D8460]
  85. Forged letter from Voltaire to an unknown recipient, written as if in the hand of Wagnière, undated.
  86. Autograph letter from Marie-Louise Denis [née Mignot] to Charles Augustin Feriol, comte d’Argental, dated 27 November 1754 [D5999]
  87. Autograph letter signed from Marie-Louise Denis [née Mignot] to Michel Lambert, written from Aux Délices and date 26 August [1755] [D6444]
  88. Autograph letter signed from Gabrielle-Emilie Le Tonnelier de Breteuil (marquise) Du Châtelet to Bonaventure Moussinot, written from Brussels and date 17 February 1741 [D2428]
  89. Autograph letter from Anne Claude Philippe de Caylus to Voltaire, written from Paris, and dated 16 January 1733. Besterman dates this letter instead to 16 June 1733 [D622]
  90. Autograph letter signed from Catherine Olympe Charles [née Du Noyer] to an unknown man, written from Paris and dated 4 November 1749

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