BIB_ID
374700
Accession number
MA 863.39
Creator
Buffon, Georges Louis Leclerc, comte de, 1707-1788.
Display Date
1776 Jan. 16.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan before 1913.
Description
1 item (2 p., with address) ; 20.3 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 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
Explaining that he received M. de Ruffey's previous letter after it had been forwarded from Paris to Montbard, where he is spending six weeks or two months; congratulating him on the office that he has purchased for his son [Frédéric Henri Richard de Ruffey]; relating that he has seen la marquise de Thiard in Paris; hoping to see him if he comes to Montfort.
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