Record ID:
295597
Accession number:
MA 1565.62
Credit:
Purchased on the Fellows Fund, 1954.
Description:
1 item (4 p.) ; 19.2 cm
Notes:
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:
Saying that there might be a new performance of Voltaire's Mahomet; discussing fabrics for Mmes. d'Argental and de Bois; telling him that her lawyer recommended she attend to her will before leaving Brussels; discussing the imminent war with England.
Provenance:
Sale (Hotel Drouot, 23 Feb. 1954, item 25).
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