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Autograph letter : [Paris], to Madame de Godeville, 1777 Mar. 23.

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.
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.