BIB_ID
374677
Accession number
MA 863.28
Creator
Buffon, Georges Louis Leclerc, comte de, 1707-1788.
Display Date
1767 Aug. 17.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan before 1913.
Description
1 item (1 p., with address) ; 20.3 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
Congratulating M. de Ruffey on his decision to accept M. [Jean-Étienne-Bernard] de Clugny [de Nuits] into the Académie [de Dijon]; writing that he has seen Mme de La Forest, who told him that M. de Ruffey would soon visit Viteaux; asking him to visit Montbard as well.
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