Autograph letter from Louisa Ulrika of Prussia to Voltaire, dating to 1749 [D3953]
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CMV36787
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MS 121.9
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Autograph letter from Louisa Ulrika of Prussia to Voltaire, dating to 1749 [D3953]
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Incipit Diplomatic:
je croi qu’il m’est permis de repondre aux vers galans d’un entre que vous scavez que je croy fort aprocher de lintelligence des anges vous autres habitans des cieux je vous trouver fort dangereux pour les mortelles.
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Brief Summary:
Autograph letter from Louisa Ulrika of Prussia to Voltaire, dating to 1749.
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1 f.
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197 x 166 mm
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2
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There is an area of discolouration along the left-hand edge of f.1r, accompanied by a series of holes, suggesting that the MS was once part of a bound collection. The letter was folded in four (since unfolded).
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Undecorated
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Voltaire has added a note in his own hand to f.1r, stating that the manuscript is a ‘lettre de la reine de Suede a mr de Voltaire et de sa main’.
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The letter is wrapped in a bifolium sheet of paper which provides additional information about the letter. This is in a contemporary eighteenth-century hand.
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