Hénault, Charles-Jean-François, 1685-1770. Autograph letter, signed, [no place] to Voltaire, [1764?] Oct. 27., [1764?]
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Volume: 2.6, Identifier: MS Hyde 76, (2. 6. 412. 2)
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Hénault, Charles-Jean-François, 1685-1770. Autograph letter, signed, [no place] to Voltaire, [1764?] Oct. 27., [1764?]
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Autograph letter signed from Charles-Jean-François Hénault to Voltaire, dated 27 October [1764?].
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Hénault discusses Voltaire’s edition of Pierre Corneille, writing that he has read Voltaire’s little notices and, in particular, a letter from him to M. l’Abbé d’Olivet in which is contained a list of subscribers for the edition of Corneille. He commends Voltaire’s choice of subscribers, adding that he had a list of his own of around twenty subscribers that he had been waiting to give to Voltaire.
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1 ff.
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Compiled and bound by collector Robert Borthwick Adam (1833-1904).
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Purchased from the Adam estate by Donald Frizell Hyde and Mary Hyde in 1948. Acquired by bequest of Mary Hyde Eccles in 2004.
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