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Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Letter signed : Rome, to an unidentified recipient, 1693 October 7.

BIB_ID
400138
Accession number
MA 2691.259
Creator
Pamphili, Flaminia, 1651-1709.
Display Date
1693 October 7.
Credit line
Gift of Mrs. Harold T. White, 1969.
Description
1 item (1 page) ; 26 x 20 cm
Notes
Addressed to a Count.
Watermark: none.
Part of the White Collection of Italian Renaissance documents; see collection-level record for more information.
Provenance
Gift of Mrs. Harold T. White, 1969.
Summary
Telling her recipient that a new fashion of bonnets has just initiated and that she s expecting a woman who will bring her a collection of them so that she could choose the appropriate one for his wife; adding that concerning the music for the oratorio, she has spoken with one of the first-rate composers, but that he has excused himself due to his obligations with writing theatrical pieces; assuring him that she will contact another composer; in the postscipt, in her own hand, saying that she will continue serving the Countess, his wife, and greeting Count A[u/n]tagli.