Autograph letter signed from Voltaire to M. Le Vault, written from Ferney added as a postscript to a letter from Pierre Jacques Claude Dupuits dated 20 May 1766 [inédit]
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CMV36826
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Gros & Delettrez, Lot 49, ‘VOLTAIRE François Marie Arouet (1694-1778)’
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Autograph letter signed from Voltaire to M. Le Vault, written from Ferney added as a postscript to a letter from Pierre Jacques Claude Dupuits dated 20 May 1766 [inédit]
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Monsieur permettez que je me joigne a mon gendre adoptif
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Brief Summary:
Autograph letter signed from Voltaire to M. Le Vault, written from Ferney added as a postscript to a letter from Pierre Jacques Claude Dupuits dated 20 May 1766.
Detailed Summary:
Voltaire adds his own thanks to a letter from Pierre Jacques Claude Dupuits (whom he calls his adoptive son-in-law) to M. Le Vault. He thanks M. Le Vault for the wine and asks him to send a hundred bottles of the best wine next autumn.
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1 f.
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2
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The paper features one vertical and three horizontal fold lines. There is an ink blot over the first line of the text.
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Passed at the Gros & Delettrez sale in Paris on 1 June 2005 for €1500 (Lot 49).
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