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Autograph letter signed : Montbard, to [Gilles Germain Richard] de Ruffey, 1753 July 4.

BIB_ID
374205
Accession number
MA 863.8
Creator
Buffon, Georges Louis Leclerc, comte de, 1707-1788.
Display Date
1753 July 4.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan before 1913.
Description
1 item (2 p., with address) ; 20.2 cm
Notes
Addressed to "Monsieur de Ruffey President / a la Chambre des Comptes / 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.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co. before 1913.
Summary
Thanking M. de Ruffey for his congratulations upon the election of Buffon to the Académie française; offering condolences on the deaths of M. de Vesvrotte, brother of M. de Ruffey, and Mme. de Chomel, his sister-in-law; inviting M. de Ruffey to his home if he comes to Montfort to console Mme. de La Forest, mother of Mme. de Chomel; mentioning that he will leave for Paris on 15 August for his reception at the Académie française; recounting that he has not written his remarks, and does not know what he will say.