Record ID:
295280
Accession number:
MA 3936.8
Date:
[1738 Dec. 19 or 20].
Credit:
Purchased on the Fellows Fund, 1978.
Description:
1 item (2 p., with address) ; 22.6 cm
Notes:
Part of a collection of 32 letters from Madame de Graffigny to François Antoine Devaux. Letters in the collection are described individually (MA 3936.1-32).
The letter is incomplete.
The possible date is from Showalter's edition of Madame de Graffigny's letters.
Summary:
Part of the letter is addressed to [Antoine Honneste] Adhémar. Describing [Emilie] du Châtelet's personality; commenting on Voltaire's Le Petit Boursoufle; discussing Abbé Desfontaines and [Jean-Baptiste] Rousseau in reference to Voltaire; informing him of Voltaire's health.
Provenance:
From the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps.
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