Record ID:
295148
Accession number:
MA 1565.15
Credit:
Purchased on the Fellows Fund, 1954.
Description:
1 item (3 p., with address panel) ; 17.9 cm
Notes:
Date 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:
Sending him Voltaire's play and asking him reserve his criticism for a later time. Asking him to write a commending account of the play to M. de Richelieu, saying that Hénault has already done so, and asking the same favor of Mme. Dargental and M. de Pondeueyle. Worrying about Voltaire's weak physical condition.
Provenance:
Sale (Hotel Drouot, 23 Feb. 1954, item 25).
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