Letter signed from Voltaire to Count Ivan Ivanovich Shuvalov, written in the hand of Durey de Morsan from Ferney and dated 28 March 1774 [D18878]
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CMV37339
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MS 66 (fol.141-142), ‘Stroganov’
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Letter signed from Voltaire to Count Ivan Ivanovich Shuvalov, written in the hand of Durey de Morsan from Ferney and dated 28 March 1774 [D18878]
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Incipit Diplomatic:
Dessillés donc, Monsieur, les yeux de quelques uns de nos Français, qui ne veulent pas croire qu’un jeune-homme du royaume de Ruric aît fait l’Epitre à Ninon.
Incipit Modernised:
Dessillés donc, Monsieur, les yeux de quelques uns de nos Français, qui ne veulent pas croire qu’un jeune-homme du royaume de Ruric ait fait l’Epître à Ninon.
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In Voltaire’s Hand:
Partly
Brief Summary:
Letter signed from Voltaire to Count Ivan Ivanovich Shuvalov, written in the hand of Durey de Morsan from Ferney and dated 28 March 1774.
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Physical Description
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Extent:
2 ff.
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Dimensions:
189 x 237 mm
Hands:
3
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Bound with other letters in green morocco.
Additional Comments:
The MS has been folded into four (since unfolded). There is a tear to the right-hand side of both folios that have been repaired with tape.
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Undecorated
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The final line has been added in Voltaire’s hand on f.142r. A third, nineteenth-century hand has added a note in Russian to f.143v that details the number of leaves in the bound collection and the number of letters in the same. The note is written in pale blue ink and is in the same hand as the pagination added to the right-hand corners of the folios throughout. Beneath the note are two marks that take the form of a ‘T’ and ‘Z’, though it is not clear that this is intentional.
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History
Date:
28 March 1774
Ownership:
Owned successively by the comte de Châteaugiron and Theodore Besterman (1904-1976).
Origin (transcript):
Ferney
Provenance:
Passed at the Vidal-Mégret sale in Paris on 29 May 1968 (Lot. 130) where it sold for 48,500 francs (plus tax).
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