BIB_ID
287149
Accession number
MA 24.7
Creator
Bossuet, Jacques Bénigne, 1627-1704.
Display Date
1693 Jan. 15.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1907.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 19.6 cm
Notes
Part of a collection of letters, manuscripts, and prints related to Bossuet and Fénelon; see collection record (MA 24) for more information.
Prefaced by a note from Eugène Levesque, editor of Bossuet's letters, explaining that the letter is incomplete.
Prefaced by a note from Eugène Levesque, editor of Bossuet's letters, explaining that the letter is incomplete.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co., 1907.
Summary
Recommending that she act with prudence, discussing the happiness that comes from doing good deeds without anyone knowing it; sending her news about mutual acquaintances.
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