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Repository: La Courneuve, Centre des Archives diplomatiques du ministère des Affaires étrangères, France
Date: 13 November 1760
CMV: cmv37714
Repository: La Courneuve, Centre des Archives diplomatiques du ministère des Affaires étrangères, France
Date: 14 October [1773]
CMV: cmv37713

This copy of the text contains two grammatical oddities that align with those of the printed edition: the plural form ‘aucunes’ and ‘prière […] qu’il a traduit’.

Repository: Bibliothèque historique de la Ville de Paris (BHVP), France
Date: 1764
CMV: cmv37710
Repository: Bibliothèque historique de la Ville de Paris (BHVP), France
Date: 4 January 1764
CMV: cmv37709
Repository: Bibliothèque historique de la Ville de Paris (BHVP), France
Date: c.1764
CMV: cmv37708
Repository: Private Collection
Date: c.September/October 1736
CMV: cmv37704

Voltaire opens by saying that he has sent a money order for 2400 lt, going on to state that nobody pays him and so he instead use a loans system. He adds that without the assistance of the recipient he would not have sufficient funds to cover his household expenses, though he acknowledges that the recipient is weary of the arrangement and therefore expresses his hopes to be able to repay their advances soon. Voltaire concludes by discussing Berlin’s desire for peace with Russia, something he claims the press and Vienna deny, and ends by asserting that we will soon be enlightened.

Repository: Private Collection
Date: 3 March 1762
CMV: cmv37701