Collection of autograph letters : Cirey, Versailles, etc., mainly to Jean François, marquis de Saint-Lambert, 1736-1755.

Record ID: 
157765
Accession number: 
MA 2287.1-108
Author: 
Du Châtelet, Gabrielle Emilie Le Tonnelier de Breteuil, marquise, 1706-1749.
Credit: 
Purchased on the Fellows Fund, 1964.
Description: 
1 v. (108 items), bound ; 29.5 cm
Notes: 

Some letters include addresses or seals.

Summary: 

Includes 96 letters from Madame by Chatelet to the Marquis de Saint-Lambert and additional letters to Charles Augustin de Ferriol, comte d'Argental (MA 2287.108), Louis François Armand Du Plessis, duc de Richelieu (MA 2287.7-8), the Marquise de Boufflers (MA 2287.85, .92, and .94), and an unidentified man (MA 2287.6). Also includes letters from Jean François, marquis de Saint-Lambert to Madame de Graffigny (MA 2287.2), the Marquise de Boufflers (MA 2287.3), and Henri Agasse (MA 2287.4); a letter from Charles de Saint-Lambert to Francois Antoine Devaux (MA 2287.1); and a letter from the Marquise de Boufflers to an unidentified woman (MA 2287.5). Items in the collection are described in individual records (MA 2287.1-108).

Binding: 
Red leather heavily tooled in gold.
Provenance: 
Bookplate of Alfred Morrison.
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Department: 
Literary and Historical Manuscripts