BIB_ID
295724
Accession number
MA 6583.8
Creator
Grimm, Friedrich Melchior, Freiherr von, 1723-1807.
Display Date
1797 Mar. 16.
Credit line
The Dannie and Hettie Heineman Collection. Gift of the Heineman Foundation, 1977.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 20 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.
The second of two letters dated 16 March 1797.
The second of two letters dated 16 March 1797.
Provenance
With the book plate of Eugène Rodrigues and two unidentified bookplates; the Dannie and Hettie Heineman Collection.
Summary
Detailing the orders Catherine II gave him in reference to her financial affairs with the Marquis de Castries; saying that he received orders from the Emperor [Paul I] to carry on the will of his mother; telling him that the Emperor is just as won over to the emigrants' cause as his mother.
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