Record ID:
295271
Accession number:
MA 3936.4
Date:
[1738] Dec. 4.
Credit:
Purchased on the Fellows Fund, 1978.
Description:
1 item (3 p., with address) ; 22.6 cm
Notes:
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).
The year is from Showalter's edition of Madame de Graffigny's letters.
With seal.
Summary:
Discussing at length her journey and stay in Cirey; reporting that Voltaire is fond of him and that [Emilie] du Châtelet was a good host; describing [Emilie] du Châtelet's fashion.
Provenance:
From the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps.
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