Electronic Enlightenment Scholarly Edition of Correspondence
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Title : William Pitt, 1st earl of Chatham [the elder] to Voltaire [François Marie Arouet]
Date : Friday, 4 September 1761
Writer : William Pitt, 1st earl of Chatham [the elder] (age 52)
Recipient : Voltaire [François Marie Arouet] (age 66)
Incipit : “The pressure of business is but a feeble reason for having deferred answering the honour of a letter from M. . . . . ”
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