BIB_ID
302241
Accession number
MA 258.37
Creator
Maintenon, Madame de, 1635-1719.
Display Date
[1704] Nov. 26.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1896.
Description
1 item (2 p., with address) ; 22.8 cm
Notes
Address panel with 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 is written in a different hand.
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 is written in a different hand.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co. in 1896.
Summary
Discussing the death of M. de Caylus; using her old age and illness as an excuse for not writing earlier; refusing that Mme. de Caylus be dependent on her; inviting her to Saint-Cyr.
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