BIB_ID
374650
Accession number
MA 863.17
Creator
Buffon, Georges Louis Leclerc, comte de, 1707-1788.
Display Date
1762 Feb. 11.
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Purchased by Pierpont Morgan before 1913.
Description
1 item (1 p., with address) ; 21.7 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 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 seal.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co. before 1913.
Summary
Explaining that he has sent volumes 8 and 9 of his work [L'histoire naturelle] care of M. [Charles] de Brosses; recommending that he follow the example of M. de Brosses by spending a winter in Paris; lamenting the fact that they see each other so rarely.
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