Record ID:
295905
Accession number:
MA 1565.73
Credit:
Purchased on the Fellows Fund, 1954.
Description:
1 item (4 p.) ; 19.8 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 she is grateful to him for his response to Voltaire; discussing Tiriot's relationship with Voltaire; expressing her mistrust in Tiriot; saying that she will soon be sending him a two-volumes-edition of Charles 12; suggesting that a lot of work still remains to be done on Mahomet.
Provenance:
Sale (Hotel Drouot, 23 Feb. 1954, item 25).
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