Autograph letter from Voltaire to Denis Diderot, dated 25 September [1762] [D10728]
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CMV34239
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FS 316 C 24, ‘Lettre de Voltaire à Diderot [texte manuscrit]’
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Autograph letter from Voltaire to Denis Diderot, dated 25 September [1762] [D10728]
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Incipit Diplomatic:
Eh bien illustre philosophe que dites vous de L’impératrice de Russie?
Incipit Modernised:
Eh bien illustre philosophe que dites vous de l’impératrice de Russie?
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In Voltaire’s Hand:
Yes
Brief Summary:
Autograph letter from Voltaire to Denis Diderot, dated 25 September [1762].
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Physical Description
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2 ff.
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225 x 171 mm
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3
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A second, unknown hand has added three notes to the MS. The first reads ‘A M. diderot’. The second reads ‘1759’, correcting an earlier note reading ‘176..’. The third is the number ‘208’. Mathematical sums have been added to f.2v, possibly in the hand of the recipient, Denis Diderot. There are also five lines drawn in the upper right-hand corner of f.2v.
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History
Date:
25 September [1762]
Ownership:
Owned by Alfred Morrison (1821-1897), Georges Blumenthal (1858-1941), and Paul-Auguste-Cyrille de Launoit (1891-1981).
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Passed at the Charavay sale in Paris on 17 April 1880 (Lot. 40) before entering the Morrison collection. Presumably passed at the Morrison sale by Sotheby in London between 1917–9, though it is not mentioned in the catalogue.
Bibliography
Bibliography:
Jeroom Vercruysse, Inventaire raisonné des manuscrits Voltairiens de la Bibliothèque royale Albert Ier, vol.2 (Turnhout, 1983) p.11.
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