BIB_ID
374198
Accession number
MA 863.7
Creator
Buffon, Georges Louis Leclerc, comte de, 1707-1788.
Display Date
[1752 Aug?].
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Purchased by Pierpont Morgan before 1913.
Description
1 item (3 p., with address) ; 19.5 cm
Notes
Addressed to "Monsieur de Ruffey / President a la Chambre / des Comptes / a Dijon."
Date is written in pencil on p. [1] in an uknown hand.
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 seal.
Date is written in pencil on p. [1] in an uknown hand.
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 seal.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co. before 1913.
Summary
Reassuring M. de Ruffey about a metal bar that he wishes to place on top of his house; discussing experiments to be done with electricity and metals; recounting that he was able to convince [Alexis] Piron to join M. de Ruffey's literary society in Dijon; recommending l'Abbé [Jean-Bernard] le Blanc and l'Abbé Tallier for the society as well.
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