BIB_ID
294518
Accession number
MA 6787.75
Creator
Beaumarchais, Pierre Augustin Caron de, 1732-1799.
Display Date
1777 Aug. 22.
Credit line
The Dannie and Hettie Heineman Collection. Gift of the Heineman Foundation, 1977.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 18.1 cm
Notes
Labeled "no. 76" by Madame de Godeville.
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.
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.
Provenance
The Dannie and Hettie Heineman Collection.
Summary
Reinforcing her chiding by admitting that he is a libertine and a negligent man; saying he is struck by Eon's arrival and Morande's flight; giving an account of his week; saying he is very sick; expressing confusion over their late concealed correspondence; telling her she draws the wrong conclusions; musing about feelings and love making; asking her not to chide him; telling her she does not know how to make love on paper; providing her with a poetic framework on how to do so and telling her it is the key to keeping him.
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