BIB_ID
295292
Accession number
MA 3936.12
Creator
Grafigny, Mme de (Françoise d'Issembourg d'Happoncourt), 1695-1758.
Display Date
[1738 Dec. 29].
Credit line
Purchased on the Fellows Fund, 1978.
Description
1 item (5 p., with address) ; 22.6 cm
Notes
Dated "le lundi soir"; the exact date is from Showalter's edition of Madame de Graffigny's letters.
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).
With seal.
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).
With seal.
Provenance
From the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps.
Summary
Explaining that she did not write because she was sick; recounting an anecdote about Voltaire's servants; discussing at length her own servant; transcribing a text about "Belinde" [portrait of Mme de Stainville?].
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