BIB_ID
374186
Accession number
MA 863.5
Creator
Buffon, Georges Louis Leclerc, comte de, 1707-1788.
Display Date
1732 Sept. 27.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan before 1913.
Description
1 item (3 p., with address) ; 22.4 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
Explaining that he has only just found M. de Ruffey's previous letter, which should have been forwarded ; mentioning M. de la Bastide, M. Lebault, and M. [Charles] de Brosses; offering to do errands while he is in Paris; discussing Paris and whether or not M. de Ruffey will visit the city; mentioning the theatre and Voltaire's Zaïre, as well as the Mercure ; sending a book catalog for M. le président [Jean] Bouhier, also of Dijon.
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