BIB_ID
294500
Accession number
MA 6787.69
Creator
Beaumarchais, Pierre Augustin Caron de, 1732-1799.
Display Date
1777 Aug. 8.
Credit line
The Dannie and Hettie Heineman Collection. Gift of the Heineman Foundation, 1977.
Description
1 item (3 p.) ; 18.1 cm
Notes
Includes a poem.
Madame de Godeville's numbering skips letter 69 (she has labeled this letter "no. 70"). The accession numbers of the remaining letters in the collection do not match her numbering.
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.
Madame de Godeville's numbering skips letter 69 (she has labeled this letter "no. 70"). The accession numbers of the remaining letters in the collection do not match her numbering.
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.
Provenance
The Dannie and Hettie Heineman Collection.
Summary
Telling her she is always wrong and that she distorts reality; referring to his two “Danube letters” and saying he will send them the day after tomorrow; saying that it is better to be blind than to see things the way she does; sending her a poem about syphilis; offering her a chance to criticize his verses.
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