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Draft of a letter from Voltaire to Louis Gaspard Fabry, written in an unknown secretarial hand and dating to c.January 1765 [D12363b]
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CMV35369
Repository:
McGill University
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Lambert-David.IICorr.1 Fabry.19.Voltaire à L.G. Fabry, [c. janv. 1765]
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Incipit Diplomatic:
M. Depuis l’ascritissemen que cous avés en la bonté de me donner le 27 du premier mois
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French
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No
Brief Summary:
Draft of a letter from Voltaire to Louis Gaspard Fabry, written in an unknown secretarial hand and dating to c.January 1765.
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Letter
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Draft
Physical Description
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Ink on paper
Extent:
1 ff.
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4to
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250 x 188 mm
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Unbound
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Undecorated
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There are a significant number of crossings out throughout, with one addition of corrected text superscript on l.5 of f.1r. The beginning of a second letter has been added to f.1v, though it constitutes only a fragment of a sentence.
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[c.January 1765]
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