BIB_ID
374689
Accession number
MA 863.34
Creator
Buffon, Georges Louis Leclerc, comte de, 1707-1788.
Display Date
1774 Jan. 26.
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Purchased by Pierpont Morgan before 1913.
Description
1 item (2 p., with address) ; 21.3 cm
Notes
Addressed to "Monsieur Le Président 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
Commenting on his enjoyment of his last visit to the Ruffey family in Dijon; praising the son of M. de Ruffey; discussing the importance of family life; extolling the importance of the work that M. de Ruffey has done, as well as his personal virtues; writing that he will return to Montbard in ten or twelve days, and that he may travel to Dijon in March or April.
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