BIB_ID
157764
Accession number
MA 1565.1-82
Creator
Du Châtelet, Gabrielle Emilie Le Tonnelier de Breteuil, marquise, 1706-1749.
Display Date
1734-1748.
Credit line
Purchased on the Fellows Fund, 1954.
Description
1 box (76 items), unbound : ill. ; size varies
Notes
Accession numbers correspond to numbering in a contemporary hand at head of letters: 1-8; 10-12; 14-16; 18-51; 54-78; 80-81.
Provenance
Sale (Hotel Drouot, 23 Feb. 1954, item 25).
Summary
Collection consists of 75 letters from Madame Du Châtelet to Charles Augustin Ferriol, comte d'Argental, and an engraved portrait of Madame Du Châtelet. Letters and portrait are described individually in 76 catalog records; see related records for more information.
Housed in
Blue cloth drop-spine box (25.1 cm)
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