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Letter signed from Voltaire to Count Ivan Ivanovich Shuvalov, written in the hand of Wagnière from Ferney and dated 1 June 1761 [D9805]
Repository: Voltaire Foundation
Date: 1 June 1761
CMV: cmv37315
Letter signed from Voltaire to Count Ivan Ivanovich Shuvalov, written in the hand of Corboz from Ferney and dated 24 May 1761 [D9791]

Voltaire signs the letter as: ‘le vieux mouton broutant au pied des alpes’.

Repository: Voltaire Foundation
Date: 25 May 1761
CMV: cmv37313
Letter signed from Voltaire to Count Ivan Ivanovich Shuvalov, written in the hand of Wagnière from Ferney and dated 10 January 1761 [D9530]
Repository: Voltaire Foundation
Date: 10 January 1761
CMV: cmv37309
Autograph letter signed from Voltaire to Count Ivan Ivanovich Shuvalov, written from Ferney and dated 20 December 1760 [D9481]
Repository: Voltaire Foundation
Date: 20 December 1760
CMV: cmv37308
Partially autograph letter signed from Voltaire to Count Ivan Ivanovich Shuvalov, written in the hand of Wagnière from Les Délices and dated 15 November 1760 [D9406]
Repository: Voltaire Foundation
Date: 15 November 1760
CMV: cmv37305
Autograph letter signed from Voltaire to Count Ivan Ivanovich Shuvalov, with an enclosed note in the hand of Wagnière, written from Schwetzingen and dated 1 August 1758 [D7811]
Repository: Voltaire Foundation
Date: 1 August 1758
CMV: cmv37284
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
Le Sottisier
This notebook formed part of the papers acquired from Mme Denis by Catherine II.
The manuscript was assembled in its present form by Wagnière, and the title is written in Wagnière’s hand.
This group of notebooks bound together contains several notebooks, whose precise number is difficult to ascertain, in which Voltaire wrote over many years. Besterman suggest a date range of 1735 to 1750 (OCV 81, p.29), which is probably roughly correct.

There are two items in this assemble that are copied in an unknown hand. The first is vers libertine (44r-44v), and the second is an extract from a Manuscrit Philosophique Clandestin (97r-102r), which Voltaire has titled Extraits de Maillet. T.D. Betserman indicates that this is in the hand of Colligny (p.420), but this is mistaken. Below is the beginning of this text:

Si on prouve par des anachronismes des plus marqués que Moïse n’a point écrit la Genèse, si l’on démontre qu’il n’est point non plus l’auteur de l’Exode, du Lévitique, des Nombres, du Deutéronome, il est sûr qu’on doit moins de foi à des histoires dont on n’a pas d’auteur contemporain. Voilà l’objet et l’idée de la critique de Spinosa, etc.

Repository: National Library of Russia, Voltaire Library
Date: 1735-1760
CMV: cmv37115
Contemporary copy of 'Amélie ou le duc de Foix', c.1752

Several people, including Marie-Louis Denis [née Mignot] have corrected the MS, suggesting that it was a much-used prompt copy. There are errors in pagination throughout.

Repository: Comédie-Française, Paris, France
Date: 1752
CMV: cmv36670
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

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