Autograph draft of ‘Doutes nouveaux sur le Testament’, dating to c.1750
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Autograph draft of ‘Doutes nouveaux sur le Testament’, dating to c.1750
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Autograph draft of ‘Doutes nouveaux sur le Testament’, dating to c.1750, consisting of four folios.
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This is the first known draft of the majority of the first part of Doutes nouveaux. The present whereabouts of the MS is unknown, but Theodore Besterman owned a photocopy of it.
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4 ff.
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Voltaire has corrected the MS throughout and included a number of additions. A note, in the hand of Wagnière, has been added to f.1 reading: ‘Ceci fait partie des Doutes nouveaux etc [?] imprimés t.28 p.286. ed. de Kelh. 8p Tout est ici de la main de l’auteur’.
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c.1750
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OCV Reference:
vol.58, p.345-470
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vol.58, p.379
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