BIB_ID
374706
Accession number
MA 863.45
Creator
Buffon, Georges Louis Leclerc, comte de, 1707-1788.
Display Date
1780 Jan. 12.
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Purchased by Pierpont Morgan before 1913.
Description
1 item (2 p., with address) ; 19.8 cm
Notes
Addressed to "Monsieur de Ruffey président / honoraire à la chambre des Comptes / rue Chapelotte / à Dijon."
Letter signed, "Le Cte. de Buffon"
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.
Letter signed, "Le Cte. de Buffon"
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
Commenting that they have been close friends for some sixty years and that, though he is not as healthy as M. de Ruffey, he hopes to live to be 100 and to write "1800 comme 1780" on his letters; writing that he was sure that he had told him that M. [Jacques] et Mme. [Suzanne Curchod] Necker did not attempt to buy the land at Montfort because it would have required them to build; suggesting that the death of Mme de Bouzonville [sister-in-law of M. de Ruffey] may change his decision to sell; asking if he still wants to sell for more than 100,000 écus; commenting that he may have difficulty obtaining this price; discussing the fact that M. Necker has purchased a large amount of England's debt from Holland.
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