Record ID:
295290
Accession number:
MA 3936.11
Date:
[1738 Dec. 26-27].
Credit:
Purchased on the Fellows Fund, 1978.
Description:
1 item (3 p., with address) ; 22.6 cm
Notes:
Dated "le vendredi soir"; the exact date is from Showalter's edition of Madame de Graffigny's letters.
Part of a collection of 32 letters from Madame de Graffigny to François Antoine Devaux. Letters in the collection are described individually (MA 3936.1-32).
With seal.
Summary:
Informing him of Voltaire's health and daily activities; saying that Voltaire and [Emilie] du Châtelet talk about him and [Léopold] Desmarest in glowing terms; responding to his inquiries about [Le Petit] Boursoufle; discussing the tobacco that Mme de Champbonin provides her.
Provenance:
From the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps.
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