Identity area
Reference code
MSPB/100
Title
Autograph letter of Louis Jules Mancini, Duke of Nevers
Date(s)
- [18th cent.] (Creation)
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Item
Extent and medium
1 sheet.
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Name of creator
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Archival history
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
The book containing this letter forms part of the bequest of George Gery Milner-Gibson-Cullum, 1921. Cullum records in an MS note on the page that the letter was bought from 'M[ada]me Gabriel Charavay'.
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Scope and content
Addressed to 'Monsieur Le Comte'. Requests that he not be given Bapaume in place of Avernes for his protégé. Regrets that he cannot go to Versailles to attend on the Comte. Note of instruction in another hand at the top of the letter.
Pencil note at bottom of the letter suggests that it was written in the time of Louis XV.
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Language of material
- French
Script of material
Language and script notes
Physical characteristics and technical requirements
Pasted to the recto of the first front flyleaf of the 4th edition of Perey, Un petit-neveu de Mazarin, Louis Mancini-Mazarini, duc de Nivernais (Paris : Calmann Lévy, 1891).