BIB_ID
106723
Accession number
MA 863.43
Creator
Buffon, Georges Louis Leclerc, comte de, 1707-1788.
Display Date
1779 Mar. 14.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, before 1913.
Description
1 item (3 p.) ; 19.6 cm
Notes
Numbered 49 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.
Published in fragmentary form.
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.
Published in fragmentary form.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co. before 1913.
Summary
Thanking her for a letter; praising her and assuring her that she will continue to be revered by future generations for her accomplishments, which he considers more important than his own; writing that he is recovered and that he will visit her in fifteen days.
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