BIB_ID
302190
Accession number
MA 258.5
Creator
Maintenon, Madame de, 1635-1719.
Display Date
Mercredi.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1896.
Description
1 item (1 p., with address) ; 16.1 cm
Notes
Address panel with trace of a seal and addressed "Pour Madame de Cailus."
Part of a large collection of letters from Madame de Maintenon primarily to her niece Mme. la Comtesse de Caylus. See collection-level record for more information.
Part of a large collection of letters from Madame de Maintenon primarily to her niece Mme. la Comtesse de Caylus. See collection-level record for more information.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co. in 1896.
Summary
Saying that [Guy-Crescent] Fagon informed her that the Comtesse de Caylus was not feeling well; ordering the Comtesse, as her "best friend" and "mother," to postpone her plans until she recovers.
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