BIB_ID
374776
Accession number
MA 863.48
Creator
Buffon, Georges Louis Leclerc, comte de, 1707-1788.
Display Date
1780 Feb. 16.
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Purchased by Pierpont Morgan before 1913.
Description
1 item (1 p., with address) ; 20.2 cm
Notes
Addressed to "Monsieur de Ruffey Président / honoraire à la Chambre des Comptes / rue Chapelotte / à 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
Writing that M. Fleury, protégé of M. de Ruffey, has succeeded; explaining that an enclosed letter recounts that M. [Antoine-Jean] Amelot [de Chaillou] has named him to the post of Receveur de la ville de Saint-Jean-de-Losne; expressing his joy at having been able to help M. de Ruffey. [Cf. MA 863.46 and MA 863.47]
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