Autograph letter signed from Voltaire to César de Missy, written from Paris and dated 12 December [1742] accompanied by a manuscript copy of Act Three of Mahomet [D2699]
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Français 12933 (fol.159-162)
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Autograph letter signed from Voltaire to César de Missy, written from Paris and dated 12 December [1742] accompanied by a manuscript copy of Act Three of Mahomet [D2699]
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Bibliothèque Nationale de France, MF 23567
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je n’ay reçu mon cher monsieur votre lettre du dix huit novembre quhier onze decembre
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Autograph letter signed from Voltaire to César de Missy, written from Paris and dated 12 December [1742] accompanied by a manuscript copy of Act Three of Mahomet.
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Voltaire writes that he did not receive de Missy’s letter dated 18 November until yesterday and answers it as quickly as he can. He says that there must have been a lost sheet in the Third Act of Mahomet that de Missy received so he sends a copy of the entire scene exactly as it must be printed. He answers each of the other concerns raised by de Missy in his letter [D2689] and then goes on to discuss Blaise Pascal and Jansenism. He concludes by asking how he might send de Missy a copy of the small Geneva edition of his writings that are full of printing errors that he will correct by hand, and attaches a copy of the third act of Mahomet.
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4 ff.
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1
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There are a number of pin holes along the central fold line, suggesting that the MS was once part of a bound collection. The paper has been folded into four (since unfolded).
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Some sections of the text have been underlined. The ending of one sentence at the bottom of f.159v has been added superscript. There are some minor corrections in the form of crossings out. F.159r is stamped with the library stamp of Louis-Nicolas-Jean-Joachim de Cayrol and the Bibliothèque Impériale.
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