Autograph letter : [Cirey, near Joinville], to François Antoine Devaux, [1738 Dec. 5-6].
Record ID:
295273
Accession number:
MA 3936.5
Date:
[1738 Dec. 5-6].
Credit:
Purchased on the Fellows Fund, 1978.
Description:
1 item (8 p.) ; 22.7 cm
Notes:
Dated "le vendredi, à minuit"; the exact date is from Showalter's edition of Madame de Graffigny's letters.
Part of a collection of 32 letters from Madame de Graffigny to François Antoine Devaux. Letters in the collection are described individually (MA 3936.1-32).
Summary:
Discussing her dinner with Voltaire and her stay in Cirey; describing in great detail the house in Cirey; telling him about the Prince de Prusse and his portrait gift; mentioning Voltaire's works Merope and L'Histoire de Louis XIV; sharing gossip.
Provenance:
From the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps.
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