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

Autograph fragment of a letter : place not specified, to an unidentified woman, undated.

BIB_ID
159401
Accession number
MA 387.1
Creator
Francis, de Sales, Saint, 1567-1622.
Display Date
undated.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1901.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 10.8 x 17 cm
Notes
Mounted on paper with portions of text filled in where bottom line has been mutilated; on verso are statements in two separate hands, in Italian, tracing provenance and certifying the letter's authenticity.
Part of a collection of documents relating to Saint Francis de Sales. Items in this collection have been described individually in separate catalog records (MA 387.1-3 and MA 392.1-2); see collection-level record for more information.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co. in 1901.