Record ID:
295595
Accession number:
MA 1565.60
Credit:
Purchased on the Fellows Fund, 1954.
Description:
1 item (3 p., with address panel) ; 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:
Mentioning her legal battle regarding a will and asking him for guidance. Discussing potential actors for Voltaire's play (La Nouë, Mademoiselle Gautier, and Mademoiselle Gossein). Reporting that the King of Prussia sent another letter to Voltaire.
Provenance:
Sale (Hotel Drouot, 23 Feb. 1954, item 25).
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