BIB_ID
374676
Accession number
MA 863.27
Creator
Buffon, Georges Louis Leclerc, comte de, 1707-1788.
Display Date
1767 Feb. 13.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan before 1913.
Description
1 item (2 p., with address) ; 20.2 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 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
Congratulating M. de Ruffey on his work for the Académie [de Dijon]; commenting on the writings of M. [Philibert] Gu[é]neau [de Montbéliard]; discussing his current house, rue des Fossés-Saint-Victor, "à cent pas de distance du jardin du Roi"; mentioning M. [Charles] de Brosses, to whom he has entrusted a case on behalf of some residents of Montbard; commenting on the speech made by M. [Antoine Léonard] Thomas to the Académie française.
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