Record ID:
295904
Accession number:
MA 1565.72
Credit:
Purchased on the Fellows Fund, 1954.
Description:
1 item (4 p., with address panel) ; 22.7 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:
Complaining that Voltaire does not write to her and that she only knows about his travels through her relations and public announcements; saying that in the near future Voltaire will be in Berlin, Bareigh, Brunswick and la Haie, telling him she does not understand why Voltaire's trip is taking so long; asking him to write to Voltaire to let him know that he is hurting her; saying she is feeling ill.
Provenance:
Sale (Hotel Drouot, 23 Feb. 1954, item 25).
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