Autograph letter signed from Voltaire to Antoine Augustin Calmet, written from Lunéville and dated 13 February 1748 [D3618]
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CMV37508
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ms39022/2/6, fol.9 ‘Letter from Voltaire to Antoine Augustin Calmet’
Title:
Autograph letter signed from Voltaire to Antoine Augustin Calmet, written from Lunéville and dated 13 February 1748 [D3618]
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Content
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Incipit Diplomatic:
Je prefere monsieur la retraitte a la cour et les grands hommes aux rois.
Incipit Modernised:
Je préfère, monsieur, la retraite à la cour, et les grands hommes aux rois.
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In Voltaire’s Hand:
Yes
Brief Summary:
Autograph letter signed from Voltaire to Antoine Augustin Calmet, written from Lunéville and dated 13 February 1748.
Detailed Summary:
Other copies of this letter date it to 15 February 1748 instead.
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Physical Description
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Extent:
2 pp.
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1
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Part of a bound collection of autographs.
Additional Comments:
There is an ink blot over the word ‘Royale’ on l.10 of f.9r.
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Undecorated
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History
Date:
13 February 1748
Ownership:
Owned by Marseille Middleton Holloway (1809-1891).
Origin (transcript):
lunéville
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Provenance:
Passed at a Charon sale in Paris on 6 February 1845 (Lot. 598) where it was bought by Marseille Middleton Holloway (1809-1891). Holloway subsequently bound this MS with a series of other autographs into an album as a gift for his wife, Anna Morris, whom he had married in 1837. The Holloway family had links with St Andrews: John William Williams, for instance, the first professor of History at the university and brother-in-law of Principal James Irvine, married Helen Marjorie Burton, one of Holloway’s granddaughters. As such, the album was housed in St Andrews for scholarly use in the 1930s.
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