BIB_ID
106705
Accession number
MA 863.44
Creator
Buffon, Georges Louis Leclerc, comte de, 1707-1788.
Display Date
[1779] Mar. 20.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, before 1913.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 19.8 cm
Notes
Numbered 76 on first page.
Part of a collection of autograph letters signed from Georges Louis Leclerc, comte de Buffon, to Gilles Germain Richard de Ruffey and other recipients. Items are described in individual records; see MA 863 for details.
Part of a collection of autograph letters signed from Georges Louis Leclerc, comte de Buffon, to Gilles Germain Richard de Ruffey and other recipients. Items are described in individual records; see MA 863 for details.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co. before 1913.
Summary
Concerning her daughter's [Anne-Louise-Germaine Necker, baronne de Staël] convalescence; commenting on the force of her daughter's mind and character, which she derives from the way that her mother has raised her; discussing the parenting practices of Mme Necker; praising her last letter; explaining that he has written twice to M. [Jacques] Necker, once "en reponse a un memoire que je n'ai point approuvé et sur lequel je luy demande le secret" and again in reference to "l'affaire de M. de Grignan."
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