Autograph letter signed from Voltaire to Louis Elisabeth de la Vergne, comte de Tressan, 1775 March 22
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Autograph letter signed from Voltaire to Louis Elisabeth de la Vergne, comte de Tressan, 1775 March 22
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Incipit Diplomatic:
Je viens de recevoir, monsieur, l’épître de votre prétendu chevalier de Morton, qui est aussi inconnu de moi & de Genève que ses vers, quoique le titre porte, imprimé à Genève.
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Autograph letter signed from Voltaire to Louis Elisabeth de la Vergne, comte de Tressan, dated 22 March 1775.
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Voltaire inveighs against those who disfigure an author’s works by adding lines not by him without consulting him.
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