BIB_ID
302250
Accession number
MA 258.46
Creator
Maintenon, Madame de, 1635-1719.
Display Date
Le jour de Pâques.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1896.
Description
1 item (3 p., with address) ; 22.8 cm
Notes
Address panel with trace of a seal.
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
Informing him that she did not write earlier because she is often in Saint Germain where she has some affairs to sort out; minimizing her political influence in general and in reference to his affair with Mr. Colbert in particular.
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