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Draft of 'Essai sur les mœurs et l'esprit des nations', written in the hand of Longchamp with autograph corrections by Voltaire (Volume 2)
Repository: Bayerische Staatsbibliothek / Bavarian State Library, Munich, Germany
Date: c.18th
CMV: cmv37342
Letter signed from Voltaire to Jacques Emanuel Roques de Maumont de La Rochefoucauld, written in the hand of Collini and dated 8 January 1753 [D5141]
Repository: Private Collection
Date: 8 January 1753
CMV: cmv37340
Letter signed from Voltaire to Count Ivan Ivanovich Shuvalov, written in the hand of Wagnière from Ferney and dated 11 June 1761 [D9818]
Repository: Voltaire Foundation
Date: 11 June 1761
CMV: cmv37317
Secretarial copy of a letter from François-Louis Defresnay to Voltaire, written in the hand of Wagnière and dated 14 April 1760 [D8851]

The copy was made for Count Ivan Ivanovich Shuvalov and was sent to him with D8868.

Repository: Voltaire Foundation
Date: 14 April 1760
CMV: cmv37298
Autograph letter signed from Voltaire to Charles-Augustin de Ferriol, comte d'Argental, written from Colmar dated 29 October 1754 [D5970]
Repository: Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris, France
Date: 29 October 1754
CMV: cmv37264
Contemporary copy of 'A madame la marquise Du Châtelet. De Cirey où il était pendant son exil, et où elle lui avait écrit de Paris'

The verse seems to have been composed during Voltaire’s stay at Cirey, likely in September/October 1734.

Repository: Bibliothèque historique de la Ville de Paris (BHVP), France
Date: c.1740
CMV: cmv37097
Variants of Act IV and Act V of 'Alzire', written in the hand of Bigex with autograph additions by Voltaire, c.1734

The manuscript offers variants of Act IV, l.166a-182 and Act V, l.53-68. It is the only known original manuscript of Alzire to have survived. The variant for Act V is written in the left-hand margin of f.1r in Voltaire’s hand.

Repository: Bibliothèque historique de la Ville de Paris (BHVP), France
Date: c.1734
CMV: cmv37091
Contemporary copy of 'Les Frères Ennemis', c.1751

A second hand has added a list of characters to the MS.

Repository: Bibliothèque de l'Arsenal, Paris, France
Date: 1751
CMV: cmv36668
Contemporary copy of ‘Adélaïde Du Guesclin’, c.1734

It is likely that this was a prompt copy used at the Comédie-Française. The play was first performance at the Comédie-Française at the ‘Jeu de Paume de l’Etoile’ on Monday 18 January 1734.

Repository: Comédie-Française, Paris, France
Date: 1734
CMV: cmv36667
Contemporary copy of ‘Adélaïde Du Guesclin’, c.1734

The copy is a clean one in a regular hand. Alternative readings are provided at the bottom of the page, but it is not clear which part of the text they relate to. There are several minor errors, when compared to the print edition, throughout.

Repository: Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris, France
Date: 1734
CMV: cmv36665

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