Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Autograph letter signed with a paraph or initial : place not specified, to the Abbé de Hautefeuille, undated.

BIB_ID
308287
Accession number
MA 727.7
Creator
Mazarin, Hortense Mancini, duchesse de, 1646-1699.
Display Date
undated.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1911.
Description
1 item (1 p., with address) ; 18.7 cm
Notes
Address panel with evidence of a seal and addressed "pour Mr. l'abbe / d'autefeuille."
Part of a collection of letters from the Duchesse de Mazarin to the French abbé, physicist and inventor Jean de Hautefeuille. Letters have been cataloged individually; see related records for more information.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co. in 1911.
Summary
Praising him for his virtues; telling him that Jean's wine has not arrived; saying that she detests the so-called 'vin de France' that is available to her in her present location.