Record ID:
190649
Accession number:
MA 4801 (07)
Created:
Place not identified, between 1609 and 1642
Credit:
Gift of Mrs. Charles Wrightsman, 1993.
Description:
1 item (2 pages)
Notes:
Item 1142 in the Wrightsman gift.
The conjectural dates of production are based on the birth of Henrietta Maria and the death of Richelieu.
With address panel.
Signed "Henrietta Marie."
Summary:
Saying she is grateful for the care he takes in her interests and that she doesn't know how to sufficiently thank him. Adding that she has already written to him several times about the ambassador [le marquis de Chateauneuf?], so she won't write about him further. Saying she has such contempt for what the ambassador might do that if it did not affect her brother, the king [Louis XIII], she would never speak of it. Saying the ambassador is doing the king great wrong and requesting Richelieu's assistance.
Provenance:
Mrs. Charles Wrightsman.
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