BIB_ID
374789
Accession number
MA 863.50
Creator
Buffon, Georges Louis Leclerc, comte de, 1707-1788.
Display Date
1783 Aug. 3.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan before 1913.
Description
1 item (2 p., with address) ; 19.1 cm
Notes
Addressed to "Monsieur de Ruffey Président / honoraire à la Chambre des / Comptes de Dijon, en son hotel / 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 he has received both of M. de Ruffey's letters and that he has "l'honneur de [lui] renvoyer la petite charge qu' [il lui a] laissée"; thanking him for his visit to Montbard; mentioning a witticism that M. de Ruffey has made; sending the best wishes of Mme Nadault [probably his sister, Antoinette, married to Benjamin Edme Nadault] to Mme de Ruffey; regretting that Mme de Ruffey did not visit as well.
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