Autograph letter signed from Pieter Abraham D’Hondt to Thomas Becket, written from the Hague dated 4 December 1764
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MA 6326, ‘Autograph letter signed : The Hague, to his partner, Thomas Becket, in London, 1764 Dec. 4.’
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Autograph letter signed from Pieter Abraham D’Hondt to Thomas Becket, written from the Hague dated 4 December 1764
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Autograph letter signed from Pieter Abraham D’Hondt to Thomas Becket, written from the Hague and dated 4 December 1764.
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Pieter Abraham D’Hondt writes to his partner, Thomas Becket, in London to discuss the publication of books by numerous authors, including Voltaire, and their being shipped to England. He speculates on the authorship of the Lettres Secrettes and the Dictionnaire philosophique, remarking that: ‘You may depend upon it that these 2 Books are really wrote by Voltaire; as to the Lettres Secrettes, they have in my opinion only the name of Voltaire, and the title wc. is good, to recommend them, but their intrinsic value is very trifling, it is otherwise with the Dictionnaire, wc. no doubt will sell much, but I do not know if it is advisable to advertise it, it is certainly a performance sc. by religious people will be numbered in the class of bad books, for it is clear that the Author makes a jest of revealed religion, this character is I believe sufficient to persuade you not to translate it’, adding that it has been burned in Geneva by the Common Executioner.
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4 pp.
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Height: 228 mm
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4 December 1764
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Purchased from Mr. Gaylord Donnelley and Mr. William Jovanovich by the Morgan Library in 1982.
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