BIB_ID
374211
Accession number
MA 863.10
Creator
Buffon, Georges Louis Leclerc, comte de, 1707-1788.
Display Date
1754 Aug. 26.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan before 1913.
Description
1 item (2 p., with address) ; 21.2 cm
Notes
Addressed to "Monsieur le president / de Ruffey rue Chapelotte / 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
Mentioning trip to Montfort; lamenting quarrel between M. de Ruffey and Buffon household caused by Mme. de Ruffey, then by M. de Buffon himself; discussing debt he owes to M. de Ruffey for white and red wine that he has sent, asking the sum so that he may send it to Dijon; asking if M. de Ruffey has written anything about the arrival of [Louis Joseph de Bourbon], Prince de Condé, and if so, asking for a copy; mentioning arrival of Docteur [Louis-Jean-Marie] Daubenton in fifteen days and stating that the Docteur will be pleased to know the secret to keeping birds devised by the Cathusian of Nancy; writing that the Abbé le Blanc must have sent M. de Ruffey a translation of the work of [David] Hume on commerce, which M. de Buffon enjoyed as well; explaining that his wife is very attached to Mme. de Ruffey that she hopes to welcome them to her house again.
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