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Autograph letter signed : Gotha, to the Marquis de Castries, 1797 Mar. 16.

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.
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.