Autograph draft of ‘Doutes nouveaux sur le Testament’, dating to c.1750, consisting of four folios.
Detailed Summary:
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.
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’.