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Autograph letter signed : Affracourt, to François Antoine Devaux, 1741 May 7.

BIB_ID
131280
Accession number
MA 2287.1
Creator
Saint-Lambert, Charles de.
Display Date
1741 May 7.
Credit line
Purchased on the Fellows Fund, 1964.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 20.6 cm
Notes
Part of a large collection of letters from Madame du Châtelet to the Marquis de Saint Lambert, Charles Augustin de Ferriol, comte d'Argental, the Marquise de Boufflers, the Duc de Richelieu and others. Items in the collection are described in separate records; see MA 2287 for more information.
Provenance
Alfred Morrison.
Summary
Telling him he is writing on behalf of his son, Jean-François, Marquis de Saint-Lambert; saying that his son has been in a pitiful state for the past two and a half months and that he is barely recognizable.