BIB_ID
295566
Accession number
MA 1565.49
Creator
Du Châtelet, Gabrielle Emilie Le Tonnelier de Breteuil, marquise, 1706-1749.
Display Date
[1739 Apr.] 20.
Credit line
Purchased on the Fellows Fund, 1954.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 19.9 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
Mentioning that she and Voltaire are distressed because they have not received news from him. Telling him she is worried that the beginning of Louis 14 be published and that readers will think badly of it.
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