Autograph letter signed from Frederick II of Prussia to Jean-Baptiste de Boyer, Marquis d’Argens, written from Wrocław and dated 13 December 1761
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MA 640.39, ‘Autograph letter signed : Breslau [Wrocław, Poland], to his chamberlain, the Marquis d’Argens, 1761 Dec. 13.’
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Autograph letter signed from Frederick II of Prussia to Jean-Baptiste de Boyer, Marquis d’Argens, written from Wrocław and dated 13 December 1761
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Autograph letter signed from Frederick II of Prussia to Jean-Baptiste de Boyer, Marquis d’Argens, written from Wrocław and dated 13 December 1761.
Detailed Summary:
Frederick remarks upon how busy he is, claiming that many matters require his attention at present. He goes on to note that he will no longer be shocked after what he has witnessed during this monstrous century, writing that his books from Berlin are his only consolation. Frederick then mentions the works he has been reading, notably Charles Batteux’s Les Beaux-arts réduites à un même principe (1746), before discussing a series of literary figures including Nicolas Boileau, Virgil, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Jean Racine, Homer, Pierre Corneille, Joseph de La Grange Chancel, Claude-Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon, and Voltaire.
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2 pp.
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Height: 230 mm
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13 December 1761
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Breslau
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Purchased from Amsler & Ruthardt in Berlin in 1910 by Pierpont Morgan.
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