BIB_ID
80755
Accession number
MA 6787.2
Creator
Beaumarchais, Pierre Augustin Caron de, 1732-1799.
Display Date
1777 Mar. 23.
Credit line
The Dannie and Hettie Heineman Collection. Gift of the Heineman Foundation, 1977.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 21.4 cm
Notes
Part of a collection of 106 letters from Beaumarchais to Madame de Godeville. The letters are described in individual records (MA 6787.1-106).
The date is in Madame de Godeville's hand.
The date is in Madame de Godeville's hand.
Provenance
The Dannie and Hettie Heineman Collection.
Summary
Discussing her decision to live in retirement; sending her a flirtatious poem; noting that if she has taken vows of seclusion and chastity, he has taken vows of openness and lust; telling her that he is sending back her epistles and memoir as she requested.
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