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Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Autograph letter signed with initials : place not specified, to Jean Antoine Rostaing, [1805] Dec. 10.

BIB_ID
295964
Accession number
MA 2068.30
Creator
Brillat-Savarin, 1755-1826.
Display Date
[1805] Dec. 10.
Credit line
Gift of the Fellows, 1960.
Description
1 item (3 p., with address) ; 19.9 cm
Notes
Dated "le 19 frim[aire]."
Part of a collection of 44 letters from Brillat-Savarin to Rostaing. Letters in the collection are described in individual records (MA 2068.1-44).
With postmark and seal.
Summary
Discussing his daily affairs; saying he received news from his brother Frédéric who is currently stationed in Moravia; addressing the issue of currency devaluation; informing him that the British and Russian troops are in Holland and that the King of Naples is a traitor; saying that people still believe peace with Austria is possible.