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Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Collection of autograph letters signed : to the Abbé de Hautefeuille, largely undated and 1695-1698.

BIB_ID
132646
Accession number
MA 727.1-37
Creator
Mazarin, Hortense Mancini, duchesse de, 1646-1699.
Display Date
largely undated and 1695-1698.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1911.
Description
1 v. (37 items), bound ; 31.9 cm
Notes
Most letters are signed with a paraph and dated with the month and day, but not the year, of writing.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co. in 1911.
Summary
Collection consists of 27 letters from the Duchesse de Mazarin to the French abbé, physicist and inventor Jean de Hautefeuille. With 10 engraved portraits. Letters have been cataloged individually in twenty-seven related records (MA 727.1-27); see related records for more information.
Housed in
Blue cloth drop-spine box (35 cm)