Autograph letter signed from Voltaire to Nicolas Claude Thieriot, written from Paris and dated 14 April 1732 [D350]
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CMV34314
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FS 316 C 10, ‘Lettre de Voltaire à Nicolas-Claude Thieriot [texte manuscrit]’
Title:
Autograph letter signed from Voltaire to Nicolas Claude Thieriot, written from Paris and dated 14 April 1732 [D350]
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Incipit Diplomatic:
You are my friend, you love liberty, you have a thinking soul; therefore England must please you.
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In Voltaire’s Hand:
Yes
Brief Summary:
Autograph letter signed from Voltaire to Nicolas Claude Thieriot, written from Paris and dated 14 April 1732.
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Physical Description
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Extent:
2 ff.
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Dimensions:
208 x 162 mm
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1
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Bound with other Voltaire manuscripts in red morocco.
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Decorations:
Undecorated
Additions:
There are a number of corrections throughout in the form of crossings out and the addition of corrected text superscript. The name of a bookseller, Woodman, has been underlined on f.2r.
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History
Date:
14 April 1732
Ownership:
Owned by Philippe Charles François Pavée, Marquis de Villevielle (1738-1825), Corneille Jacobsen, and Alfred Morrison (1821-1897). Possibly also part of the Pougens collection (see Dernier volume, p.319 n), but the letter was printed in that volume (p.321
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Provenance:
Presumably passed at the Sotheby sale in London on 19 April 1918 (Lot. 1768).
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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