BIB_ID
374795
Accession number
MA 863.51
Creator
Buffon, Georges Louis Leclerc, comte de, 1707-1788.
Display Date
1784 Aug. 18.
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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
Praising his poetry, which was the highlight of a meeting of the [Académie de Dijon], visited by M. le comte d'Oels [Heinrich, Prince of Prussia]; commenting favorably on the character and cultivation of [Heinrich, Prince of Prussia]; hoping to see M. de Ruffey at Montfort.
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