BIB_ID
294520
Accession number
MA 6787.77
Creator
Beaumarchais, Pierre Augustin Caron de, 1732-1799.
Display Date
1777 Aug. 25.
Credit line
The Dannie and Hettie Heineman Collection. Gift of the Heineman Foundation, 1977.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 18.1 cm
Notes
Labeled "no. 78" 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
Mentioning the books he is sending her [Nerciat's Contes nouveaux (1777), Girardin's De la composition des paysages (1777), Saint-Simon, Des jacinthes (1768)]; demanding she send back his letter; saying he is fed up with their perpetual misunderstandings; arguing that he can never be the lover of a woman who does not know how to read; sourly commenting on her letter and the bleak prospects for their relationship; suggesting they become friends.
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