Electronic Enlightenment Scholarly Edition of Correspondence

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Title : René Descartes to Constantijn Huygens

Subtitle : translation from French into English

Date : Friday, 4 December 1637

Writer : René Descartes (age 41)

Recipient : Constantijn Huygens (age 41)

Incipit : “The three sheets which I sent you do not in the least deserve the good words in the letter which you kindly wrote me, and I assure you that so . . . . ”

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