Autograph letter signed from Voltaire to M. Durand, written from Les Délices and dated 20 August [1756] [D6975]
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CMV37434
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ARC.006410, ‘Letter to Jean-Baptiste Rousseau’
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Autograph letter signed from Voltaire to M. Durand, written from Les Délices and dated 20 August [1756] [D6975]
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Incipit Diplomatic:
il se passera plus de trois mois monsieur avant que les crammer soient en etat de donner l’hisotire universelle dont vous me parlez
Incipit Modernised:
Il se passera plus de trois mois monsieur avant que les Crammer soient en état de donner l’histoire universelle dont vous me parlez.
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In Voltaire’s Hand:
Yes
Brief Summary:
Autograph letter signed from Voltaire to M. Durand, written from Les Délices and dated 20 August [1756].
Detailed Summary:
Voltaire writes that it will be three months before the Crammers are able to provide copies of the Histoire Universelle, adding that he is working on the text as much as his poor health allows, and that as soon as the work is ready for publication he will try his best to fulfil the wishes of the recipient. He concludes by saying that he wishes he could provide the recipient with more solid proof of the true esteem and feelings he has for them.
In the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum’s catalogue entry, the recipient of this letter is given as Jean-Baptiste Rousseau. However, in the textual notes of both D8975 and D6577, Besterman instead suggests that the recipient was M. Durand.
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Physical Description
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1 f.
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1
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Unbound
Additional Comments:
The sheet bearing the address of the recipient has been removed. There are some staining to the upper right-hand corner of f.1r.
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Undecorated
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The MS has been endorsed as ’10’ in the upper left-hand corner of f.1r. The price of ‘$25.00’ has been added in the upper left-hand corner of the same. This corresponds to the price paid for the manuscript by Isabella Stewart Gardner in 1890.
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History
Date:
20 August [1756]
Ownership:
Owned by J.B. Roelants, inspecteur de l’université de Louvain (c.19th) and Gerald E. Hart (1849-1936).
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aux délices
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Provenance:
Passed at the Charavay sale in Paris on 3 December 1887 (Lot. 163); again in 1888 (Lot. 29), and again in 1889 (Lot. 63). Later passed at the Benjamin Gerald E. Hart, of Montreal, sale hosted by Charles F. Libbie & Co. in Boston on 19 April 1890 (Lot. 2939) where it was purchased by Isabella Stewart Gardner for $25.
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