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Autograph letter signed with initials : place not specified, to Madame de Caylus, Dimanche.

BIB_ID
302243
Accession number
MA 258.39
Creator
Maintenon, Madame de, 1635-1719.
Display Date
Dimanche.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1896.
Description
1 item (3 p., with address) ; 16.7 cm
Notes
Address panel with seal and addressed to "Madame / Madame la Comtesse de / Caylus."
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
Discussing a letter from [Sophie-Marie] de Dangeau in which she informs her that she going to prison; telling Countess de Caylus about her subsequent meeting and gambling party with her.