Record ID:
295324
Accession number:
MA 3936.31
Date:
[1739 Feb. 9].
Credit:
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.
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.
Provenance:
From the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps.
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