Voltaire, François Marie Arouet de. ALS / copy to Maurepas, Jean Frédéric Phélypeaux, comte de, 17 December 1742
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Manuscript Collection MS-4364 (Container 2.1)
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Voltaire, François Marie Arouet de. ALS / copy to Maurepas, Jean Frédéric Phélypeaux, comte de, 17 December 1742
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Autograph letter signed from Voltaire to Jean Frédéric Phélypeaux, comte de Maurepas, written from Paris and dated 17 December 1742. The letter is inserted into a c.18th copy of La Henriade.
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Voltaire writes of a concerning matter that require expeditious justice. He notes that 2,000 defamatory libels against ministers, the Marquise du Châtelet, and other respectable persons have been printed under the title of his alleged works. Voltaire adds that if he was not sick, he would have spoken to Mr de Marville already as he is in a position to tell him the names of the booksellers, the number of associate, the number of copies they have left, and their store. He asks Maurepas to take action, and ends with his best wishes for the new year.
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Owned by Dulau, and Desmond Flower.
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Probably passed at the Monmerqué sale in Paris on 24 June 1867 (p. 26, in no. 170). It was inserted into an eighteenth-century manuscript of La Henriade which passed at the Mortimer L. Schiff sale, Sotheby in London on 9 December 1938 (p. 508, no. 2259) where it was bought by Dulau. Sold by Desmond Flower, 10th Viscount Ashbrook, in 1972.
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