BIB_ID
157783
Accession number
MA 2287.6
Creator
Du Châtelet, Gabrielle Emilie Le Tonnelier de Breteuil, marquise, 1706-1749.
Display Date
[1745] Sept. 17.
Credit line
Purchased on the Fellows Fund, 1964.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 18.1 cm
Notes
Part of a large collection of letters from Madame du Châtelet to the Marquis de Saint Lambert, Charles Augustin de Ferriol, comte d'Argental, the Marquise de Boufflers, the Duc de Richelieu and others. Items in the collection are described in separate records; see MA 2287 for more information.
Provenance
Alfred Morrison.
Summary
Thanking him for removing the tapestries; asking him to send her copies of her contracts; saying that she is slightly indignant about the way justice is dispensed in Chaumont and that she hopes to obtain justice here; telling him she is sending him the new edition of Voltaire's poem on the battle of Fontenoi.
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