BIB_ID
308338
Accession number
MA 727.27
Creator
Mazarin, Hortense Mancini, duchesse de, 1646-1699.
Display Date
1698 Jan. 14.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1911.
Description
1 item (2 p., with address) ; 21.7 cm
Notes
Address panel with seal and addressed "A Monsieur / l'abbe d'autefeuille" in Paris.
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.
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
Introducing the bearer of this letter to him; requesting that he sort out a wine dealing; asking whether she is is owing for a wine shipment; sending him a book 'from Milord Alifax to his daughter' [The Lady's New-Year's-Gift; or Advice to a Daughter]; saying that, in her view, it is not very good.
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