BIB_ID
374179
Accession number
MA 863.2
Creator
Buffon, Georges Louis Leclerc, comte de, 1707-1788.
Display Date
1731 Jan. 22.
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Purchased by Pierpont Morgan before 1913.
Description
1 item (4 p., with address) ; 22.5 cm
Notes
Addressed to "Monsieur Richard de Ruffey Eleu du Roy / a Dijon."
Part of a collection of autograph letters signed from Georges Louis Leclerc, comte de Buffon, to Gilles Germain Richard de Ruffey and other recipients. Items are described in individual records; see MA 863 for details.
With postmark and seal.
Part of a collection of autograph letters signed from Georges Louis Leclerc, comte de Buffon, to Gilles Germain Richard de Ruffey and other recipients. Items are described in individual records; see MA 863 for details.
With postmark and seal.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co. before 1913.
Summary
Recounting relapse and contintuing ill health since arriving in Bordeaux; discussing lack of entertainment during Carnaval; reminiscing about an Italian actor, Francisque, and his excellent troupe; telling a story of the loss of the building in which the troupe played, in a fire started by an errant firework during a production of Le festin de pierre; condemning the hypocrisy of the lower aristocracy; writing that he will soon leave Bordeaux; indicating that the reply should be sent regardless of the move, and that it will be forwarded to Montauban, where he will break his journey.
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