BIB_ID
295324
Accession number
MA 3936.31
Creator
Grafigny, Mme de (Françoise d'Issembourg d'Happoncourt), 1695-1758.
Display Date
[1739 Feb. 9].
Credit line
Purchased on the Fellows Fund, 1978.
Description
1 item (3 p., with address) ; 22.6 cm
Notes
Dated "le lundi gras"; 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.
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.
Provenance
From the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps.
Summary
Telling him about her daily activities; asking him on behalf of Voltaire to show an attached letter in Lunéville [from Marguerite-Madeleine Du Moutier Maignard de Bernières]; discussing her apprehension about an upcoming journey.
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