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

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Lambert-David.IICorr.1 Fabry.19.Voltaire à L.G. Fabry, [c. janv. 1765]

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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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Content

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Voltaire: Author
Unknown: Secretary

Incipit Diplomatic:

M. Depuis l’ascritissemen que cous avés en la bonté de me donner le 27 du premier mois

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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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Physical Description

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1 ff.

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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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Record created by:

Zoe Screti

Record created on:

29 August 2024