Autograph letter signed from Voltaire to M. Le Vault, written from Ferney added as a postscript to a letter from Pierre Jacques Claude Dupuits dated 20 May 1766 [inédit]

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Gros & Delettrez, Lot 49, ‘VOLTAIRE François Marie Arouet (1694-1778)’

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Autograph letter signed from Voltaire to M. Le Vault, written from Ferney added as a postscript to a letter from Pierre Jacques Claude Dupuits dated 20 May 1766 [inédit]

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Monsieur permettez que je me joigne a mon gendre adoptif 

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Autograph letter signed from Voltaire to M. Le Vault, written from Ferney added as a postscript to a letter from Pierre Jacques Claude Dupuits dated 20 May 1766.

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Voltaire adds his own thanks to a letter from Pierre Jacques Claude Dupuits (whom he calls his adoptive son-in-law) to M. Le Vault. He thanks M. Le Vault for the wine and asks him to send a hundred bottles of the best wine next autumn.

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1 f.

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2

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The paper features one vertical and three horizontal fold lines. There is an ink blot over the first line of the text.

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