SENAC DE MEILHAN, Gabriel (1736-1803), French writer. L.A.S. - Lot 211

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SENAC DE MEILHAN, Gabriel (1736-1803), French writer. L.A.S. - Lot 211
SENAC DE MEILHAN, Gabriel (1736-1803), French writer. L.A.S. addressed to the publisher Panckoucke. Valenciennes, October 23, 1779. Document finely set in the margin and bound in black half-maroquin with corners à la Bradel, title in long gold. Handwritten bookplate of Claude Seignolle on the back cover. From the edition of Voltaire's correspondence. The publisher Panckoucke sent back to Senac de Meilhan the letters that the latter had addressed to Voltaire " [...] I thank you very much for your attention to send me the letters of me that you have found in the portfolios of Mr de Voltaire. I have reason to believe that there must be others, and I will be extremely obliged to you to send them to me. It is true that I have some letters from Mr. de Voltaire, I will search for them in my papers and I will pass them on to you with great pleasure [...]". Although Voltaire had died six months earlier, Panckoucke and later Beaumarchais and Condorcet embarked on the vast enterprise of publishing the manuscripts and correspondence of the great man, resulting in the Kehl edition.
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