BIB_ID
295148
Accession number
MA 1565.15
Creator
Du Châtelet, Gabrielle Emilie Le Tonnelier de Breteuil, marquise, 1706-1749.
Display Date
[1744 July] 10.
Credit line
Purchased on the Fellows Fund, 1954.
Description
1 item (3 p., with address panel) ; 17.9 cm
Notes
Date is from Besterman.
Part of a large collection of letters from Madame du Châtelet to Charles Augustin de Ferriol, comte d'Argental. Items in the collection are described in separate records; see MA 1565 for more information.
Part of a large collection of letters from Madame du Châtelet to Charles Augustin de Ferriol, comte d'Argental. Items in the collection are described in separate records; see MA 1565 for more information.
Provenance
Sale (Hotel Drouot, 23 Feb. 1954, item 25).
Summary
Sending him Voltaire's play and asking him reserve his criticism for a later time. Asking him to write a commending account of the play to M. de Richelieu, saying that Hénault has already done so, and asking the same favor of Mme. Dargental and M. de Pondeueyle. Worrying about Voltaire's weak physical condition.
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