Autograph letter : place not specified, to Charles Augustin de Ferriol, comte d'Argental, [1739] Feb. 2.

Record ID: 
295367
Accession number: 
MA 1565.33
Author: 
Du Châtelet, Gabrielle Emilie Le Tonnelier de Breteuil, marquise, 1706-1749.
Credit: 
Purchased on the Fellows Fund, 1954.
Description: 
1 item (3 p., with address panel) ; 22.8 cm
Notes: 

Year is from Besterman.
Part of a large collection of letters from Madame du Châtelet to Charles Augustin de Ferriol, comte d'Argental. Items in the collection are described in separate records; see MA 1565 for more information.

Summary: 

Agonizing over Voltaire's wish to go forward with the lawsuit and asking the comte d'Argental to persuade him against it. Inquiring whether he received the play and the roe deer.

Provenance: 
Sale (Hotel Drouot, 23 Feb. 1954, item 25).