BIB_ID
108372
Accession number
MA 863.37
Creator
Buffon, Georges Louis Leclerc, comte de, 1707-1788.
Display Date
1775 May 3.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, before 1913.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 18 cm
Notes
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
Explaining that he never replies to critics and will not in this instance; mentioning the election of [Emmanuel- Félicité de Dufort, duc and] Maréchal de Duras to the Académie française; offering two tickets to the reception dinner given in honor of this new member; writing that he and the Maréchal will give short speeches, but that l'abbé [Jacques] Delille will read from his edition of Virgile; relating that his bad cold has prevented him from seeing the comte de Tressan; sending his regards to the comtesse de Tressan and to l'abbé de Tressan, their son.
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