BIB_ID
297211
Accession number
MA 2287.68
Creator
Du Châtelet, Gabrielle Emilie Le Tonnelier de Breteuil, marquise, 1706-1749.
Display Date
[1748 Aug. 31].
Credit line
Purchased on the Fellows Fund, 1964.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 18.3 cm
Notes
Dated "samedi matin"; estimated date is from Besterman.
Part of a large collection of letters from Madame du Châtelet to the Marquis de Saint Lambert, Charles Augustin de Ferriol, comte d'Argental, the Marquise de Boufflers, the Duc de Richelieu and others. Items in the collection are described in separate records; see MA 2287 for more information.
Part of a large collection of letters from Madame du Châtelet to the Marquis de Saint Lambert, Charles Augustin de Ferriol, comte d'Argental, the Marquise de Boufflers, the Duc de Richelieu and others. Items in the collection are described in separate records; see MA 2287 for more information.
Provenance
Alfred Morrison.
Summary
Sharing her desperation at the prospect of having to prolong her stay [at Plombières?]; giving him an account of her living conditions (for instance the total lack of privacy that prevails in the house); expressing her longing to spend the rest of her life with him.
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