BIB_ID
374654
Accession number
MA 863.21
Creator
Buffon, Georges Louis Leclerc, comte de, 1707-1788.
Display Date
1765 Feb. 24.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan before 1913.
Description
1 item (2 p., with address) ; 19.8 cm
Notes
Addressed to "Monsieur de Ruffey President / honoraire a la Chambre des / Comptes rue Chappellotte / 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 received M. de Ruffey's previous letter more than six weeks after it was written; advising him not to internalize the struggles and problems in his professional and academic life; complimenting him on the criteria he has chosen for awarding prizes [at the Académie de Dijon]; pointing out that M. de Ruffey has not told him whether he has received volumes ten and eleven of [L'histoire naturelle] that he sent care of M. [Charles] de Brosse[s] the previous summer; writing that volumes twelve and thirteen will appear after Easter and that he thinks M. de Ruffey will like them; recounting that he plans to return to Montbard at the same time; lamenting that he will no longer see M. de Ruffey at Montbard.
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