BIB_ID
374704
Accession number
MA 863.42
Creator
Buffon, Georges Louis Leclerc, comte de, 1707-1788.
Display Date
1777 Jan. 13.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan before 1913.
Description
1 item (3 p., with address) ; 20.2 cm
Notes
Addressed to "Monsieur de Ruffey Président / honoraire à la Chambre des / Comptes des Bourgogne / 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
Hoping that he will come to Montfort during the summer so that he may see him at Montbard; writing that he is still at Montbard because of poor weather and poor health; referring to an occasion on which he has seen M. de Ruffey and noticed his continued health and vigor; expressing regret at having missed him and his son [Frédéric-Henri-Richard de Ruffey] while they were in Paris, as well as the son's "jeune Dame" [his wife, Marie-Charlotte Hocquart de Cuœilly]; mentioning a statue raised in his honor [in the Jardin du Roi] which was kept secret from him; writing that "un homme sage doit plus craindre l'envie que faire cas de sa gloire."
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