Record ID:
296605
Accession number:
MA 2287.22
Credit:
Purchased on the Fellows Fund, 1964.
Description:
1 item (3 p.) ; 8.7 cm
Notes:
Besterman indicates letter was probably written in France or Belgium, sometime in the spring or summer of 1748. --Cf. Besterman, v. 2, p. 199.
Part of a large collection of letters from Madame du Châtelet to the Marquis de Saint Lambert, Charles Augustin de Ferriol, comte d'Argental, the Marquise de Boufflers, the Duc de Richelieu and others. Items in the collection are described in separate records; see MA 2287 for more information.
Summary:
Saying that Panpan is taking precedence over her today; offering to visit him; asking whether Voltaire visited him; saying that she only just received his letter.
Provenance:
Alfred Morrison.
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