BIB_ID
287997
Accession number
MA 6787.15
Creator
Beaumarchais, Pierre Augustin Caron de, 1732-1799.
Display Date
1777 Apr. 29.
Credit line
The Dannie and Hettie Heineman Collection. Gift of the Heineman Foundation, 1977.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 21.4 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.
With seal.
The date is in Madame de Godeville's hand.
With seal.
Provenance
The Dannie and Hettie Heineman Collection.
Summary
Discussing how he feels torn between his current partner (Marie-Therese de Willermaulaz, with whom he has just had a daughter) and Madame de Godeville; recounting a conversation in which his current partner guessed that he was involved with someone else; asking Madame de Godeville to break off their relationship so he can regain his peace of mind, or to consent to see at her feet a dishonest man who can only half love her.
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