An important collection of manuscripts relating to Voltaire has been donated to Montreal's McGill University.
The Jacqueline Lambert-David Voltaire Manuscript Collection contains 290 items, private, diplomatic, judicial and administrative letters; literary and historical manuscripts, amassed by the Lambert family who owned the Château de Ferney for 150 years, from 1848 to 1998.
The collection is the gift of Professor Peter Lambert-David Southam, formerly of the Université de Sherbrooke in Quebec. It has been curated by Ann-Marie Holland at McGill in collaboration with Nicholas Cronk of the Voltaire Foundation. Among the highlights are a manuscript of the Histoire de la guerre de 1741 and a set of hitherto unknown correspondence in which Voltaire defends the son of a watchmaker who was beaten up at the instigation of the parish priest in nearby Moëns.
From 18th October to 22nd December, a selection of manuscripts signed, sealed, and delivered by Voltaire will be on display at McGill’s McLennan Library Building:
Talk by Nicolas Cronk at McGill on 18th October: Voltaire Manuscripts; Traces of Celebrity - YouTube
The Lambert-David manuscript collection project - Voltaire Foundation (ox.ac.uk)
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