BIB_ID
287975
Accession number
MA 6787.5
Creator
Beaumarchais, Pierre Augustin Caron de, 1732-1799.
Display Date
1777 Apr. 10.
Credit line
The Dannie and Hettie Heineman Collection. Gift of the Heineman Foundation, 1977.
Description
1 item (3 p.) ; 21.5 cm
Notes
Part of a collection of 106 letters from Beaumarchais to Madame de Godeville. The letters are described in individual records (MA 6787.1-106).
The date is in Madame de Godeville's hand.
The date is in Madame de Godeville's hand.
Provenance
The Dannie and Hettie Heineman Collection.
Summary
Telling her that he is responding to her last letter rather than the one he just received because he wants to wait until he is alone to read her most recent letter; saying he won't address her informally using "tu" because the tone of one's language is conditional upon place and time; alluding to a fable by La Fontaine (L'âne et le petit chien); suggesting that they meet at her rooms so she can show him "toute nue" the truth of her feelings for him; returning her book and comparing his interest in reading the book to his interest in her.
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