BIB_ID
294494
Accession number
MA 6787.62
Creator
Beaumarchais, Pierre Augustin Caron de, 1732-1799.
Display Date
1777 July 27.
Credit line
The Dannie and Hettie Heineman Collection. Gift of the Heineman Foundation, 1977.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 22.6 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.
This letter was received "Ce samedi au soir."
The date is in Madame de Godeville's hand.
This letter was received "Ce samedi au soir."
Provenance
The Dannie and Hettie Heineman Collection.
Summary
Responding to her letter from this morning for the second time; explaining that he did not have time to send his first draft earlier because he is on his guard; saying he has only just read her letter from last night but won't take the blame for it because it was handed over to him under an assumed name; saying she is unjust and he is tormented.
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