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Repository: Private Collection
Date: post-1740
CMV: cmv375278
The MS is bound with three other texts by Voltaire which once formed part of the Boissy d’Anglas album. These texts are:
- (a) a letter in verse to Algarotti and a letter to the comte d’Argental
- (b) Poème sur le désastre de Lisbonne
- (d) Résumé historique et critique.
Repository: The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK
Date: c.1750
CMV: cmv37518
The MS has been corrected throughout by Voltaire. It is almost identical to the print edition, except for l.21-27. Here, multiple versions have been crossed out and written over so extensively that only incomplete sentences are legible.
Repository: Koninklijke Bibliotheek, Brussels, Capital Region, Belgium
Date: 1745
CMV: cmv37489
Repository: Private Collection
Date: 16 August 1768
CMV: cmv37408
Repository: Private Collection
Date: 26 August 1769
CMV: cmv37407
The draft is incomplete and represents just one part of Rousseau’s much longer ‘Lettre sur la providence’. The symbol at the beginning of the draft suggests that this manuscript may have been an addendum that was to be inserted into the final draft of the letter.
Repository: Private Collection
Date: [18 August 1756]
CMV: cmv37382
The lines are part of the third Discours and represent ll.99-102.
Repository: Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris, France
Date: 1737
CMV: cmv37376
Repository: Biblioteca estense universitaria di Modena
Date: c.1751
CMV: cmv37364
Repository: Voltaire Foundation
Date: 14 December 1770
CMV: cmv37347
Repository: Voltaire Foundation
Date: 4 June 1762
CMV: cmv37334