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Autograph letter signed with initials : Versailles, to Madame de Caylus, [1705] Feb. 17.

BIB_ID
302214
Accession number
MA 258.20
Creator
Maintenon, Madame de, 1635-1719.
Display Date
[1705] Feb. 17.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1896.
Description
1 item (2 p., with address) ; 22.8 cm
Notes
Address panel with trace of a seal and addressed to "Madame / Madame la Comtesse 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.
Year from Leroy and Loyau.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co. in 1896.
Summary
Wishing the best to [Marie-Anne] d'Enghien; asking Madame de Caylus to purchase household linens and some clothes; discussing the protégés of the King, Abbé de La Chétardie, and [Daniel Charles Gabriel] de Caylus.