Autograph note by La Beaumelle introducing a letter responding to Voltaire’s ‘Mémoire’
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CMV33756
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MS 54 (I), ‘Dossier of papers in the possession of Laurent Anglivel de La Beaumelle at the time of his imprisonment in the Bastille in April 1753’
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Autograph note by La Beaumelle introducing a letter responding to Voltaire’s ‘Mémoire’
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Brief Summary:
An autograph note by La Beaumelle introducing a letter responding to Voltaire’s ‘Mémoire’.
Detailed Summary:
A note introducing the text that follows in MS 54 (J). The note states that what follows in a letter in response to Voltaire’s ‘Mémoire’ in which Voltaire boasts of having rendered essential services to La Baumelle.
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Physical Description
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2 pp.
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132 x 110 mm
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The MS is bound with other papers in the collection in Middle Hill boards.
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The lower right-hand corner of p.41 has been torn away. There are two small holes in the central left-hand side of the page, as well as a number of pin holes along the full length of the left-hand side.
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Owned by Sir Thomas Phillipps.
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Sold at auction by Sotheby in London on 28-29 June 1976 (Lot 4167) for £2600 plus commissions.
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