BIB_ID
283523
Accession number
MA 221.3
Creator
La Fontaine, Jean de, 1621-1695.
Display Date
1656 Feb. 29.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1909.
Description
1 item (3 p., with address) ; 17 cm
Notes
Address panel with seal and addressed to Jannart in Paris.
Dated "A Chamery (?) le 29 février 1656." Chamrey is located near Rheims.
Jacques Jannart may have been a relation Marie Héricart, La Fontaine's wife.
Part of a collection of three manuscripts and one letter of La Fontaine. Items in the collection have been described individually in four catalog records; see collection-level record for MA 221 for more information.
This letter is referenced to as being written from Rheims in R.W. Ladborough's "François Maucroix' Friendship with la Fontaine" Modern Language Review, Vol. 34, No. 2 (Apr., 1939), pp. 224.
Dated "A Chamery (?) le 29 février 1656." Chamrey is located near Rheims.
Jacques Jannart may have been a relation Marie Héricart, La Fontaine's wife.
Part of a collection of three manuscripts and one letter of La Fontaine. Items in the collection have been described individually in four catalog records; see collection-level record for MA 221 for more information.
This letter is referenced to as being written from Rheims in R.W. Ladborough's "François Maucroix' Friendship with la Fontaine" Modern Language Review, Vol. 34, No. 2 (Apr., 1939), pp. 224.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co. in 1909.
Summary
Thanking him for two letters and discussing family and business affairs.
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