BIB_ID
287547
Accession number
MA 1041.1-3
Creator
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 1712-1778.
Display Date
1756-1789.
Credit line
MA 1041: Purchased by J.P. Morgan, Jr., 1926.
Description
1 box (15 items) ; 31.9 cm
Notes
MA 1041.1 removed from v. 3 of his Émile (La Haye, 1762).
MA 667.9 removed from v. 1 of his Émile (La Haye, 1762).
Formerly housed in a red quarter leather drop-spine box (31.9 cm); re-boxed in 2017; previous box discarded.
MA 667.9 removed from v. 1 of his Émile (La Haye, 1762).
Formerly housed in a red quarter leather drop-spine box (31.9 cm); re-boxed in 2017; previous box discarded.
Provenance
MA 667 purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co. in 1910; MA 1041 purchased by J.P. Morgan, Jr. from Tregaskis in 1926.
Summary
Collection consists of letters from Jean-Jacques Rousseau to various recipients, including several unidentified recipients, a translation of a letter from David Hume to Madame (Octavie Guichard) Belot, a letter from Rousseau's mistress, Marie-Thérèse Levasseur, to Samuel Destournet, and a laudatory letter from John Gillies to an unidentified recipient regarding Rousseau's recent published Confessions. Items in this collection have been described individually in separate catalog records ((MA 667 and MA 1041); see related records for more information.
Housed in
Blue cloth drop-spine box (34.4 cm)
Catalog link
Department