BIB_ID
374221
Accession number
MA 863.13
Creator
Buffon, Georges Louis Leclerc, comte de, 1707-1788.
Display Date
1758 Dec. 25.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan before 1913.
Description
1 item (1 p., with address) ; 21.5 cm
Notes
Addressed to "Monsieur le president de / Ruffey rue de la 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
Explaining that he has sent two copies of the seventh volume of L'Histoire naturelle, one for M. de Buffon, the other for the Président de Brosses [Charles de Brosses]; adding that he has sent one hundred écus to be given to M. [Claude] Perchet, "Syndic des Etats," as payment for wine that he has sent; recounting that the package also contains things that the Abbé [Jean-Bernard] Le Blanc wants him to have; explaining that he has just returned from Paris and that he will spend the winter in Montbard.
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