Record ID:
295283
Accession number:
MA 3936.10
Date:
[1738 Dec. 23-25].
Credit:
Purchased on the Fellows Fund, 1978.
Description:
1 item (4 p., with address) ; 22.6 cm
Notes:
Dated "le mardi 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:
Discussing Voltaire's [Le Petit] Boursoufle in relation to [Pierre-Claude Nivelle de La] Chaussée's Préjugé à la mode; proposing revisions to Devaux's verses; saying that women write better than men; commenting on Voltaire's relationship to his servants; transcribing extracts from [Emilie] du Châtelet's translation of [Bernard] Mandeville, La Fable des abeilles [The Fable of The Bees: or, Private Vices, Publick Benefits].
Provenance:
From the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps.
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