Autograph letter : Gotha, to the Marquis de Castries, 1797 Jan. 21.

Record ID: 
295719
Accession number: 
MA 6583.5
Author: 
Grimm, Friedrich Melchior, Freiherr von, 1723-1807.
Credit: 
The Dannie and Hettie Heineman Collection. Gift of the Heineman Foundation, 1977.
Description: 
1 item (4 p.) ; 14.9 cm
Notes: 

Part of a collection of autograph letters from Baron von Grimm to the Marquis de Castries. Letters are individually cataloged in 14 records (MA 6583.1-14); see collection level record for more information.

Summary: 

Telling him about his difficulty in gathering the funds necessary for the emigration fund; saying that he is ready to answer to the new [Russian] Empress; discussing his pension and the expenses that life in Hamburg incur; mentioning writing a memoir.

Provenance: 
With the book plate of Eugène Rodrigues and two unidentified bookplates; the Dannie and Hettie Heineman Collection.