ROUSSEAU, Jean Jacques (1712-1778). Autograph letter signed, partly unpublished , addressed to Madame de Warens ('Madame ma très Chère Maman') Grenoble, 29 April 1740 , informing her of the progress of his journey and various encounters and business matters, mentioning the salary Monsieur de Mably has promised him, worrying about her health, 'Mais ou trouverai-je, ma chère maman des discours assez touchants et assez persuasifs pour vous engager à dissiper mes allarmes par de plus grand soin sur vôtre santé, j'en recommande instamment le soin à toute vôtre maison ... tâches de la rétablir cette chère santé, afin de donner à vôtre fils un motif de zêle et d'encouragement plus efficace que toutes les vues du monde', promising to write from Lyon, sending messages for others, and urging her to take care of the library, 3 pages, 4to addressed on the verso of the 2nd leaf to 'Madame la Baronne de Warenne a Chambery' (fragment torn from lower margin of second leaf with part loss of one word, neatly repaired, strengthened with tape at centre fold on verso). An affectionate and touching letter, of which approximately half (17 lines) is unpublished, written when the years of idealised happiness with Madame de Warens over, Rousseau was on his way to take up the post of tutor to the children of Jean Bonnot de Mably, Provost General of Lyons. His first pedagogic work was to be written for the Provost's eldest son. Delayed by the lack of a coach at Grenoble, he has seen 'Monsieur D.' who had not forwarded his letter to Monsieur de Mably, 'à cause du mot de Père qui lui paroissait trop familier'. He sends greetings to Monsieur de Courcelles (his successor as Madame de Warens' secretary), and has conveyed a letter from 'Monsieur Ch.' to a lady who is too ill to write. He interpolates between messages 'Il me semble qu'il y a mille ans que j'ai quitté Les Charmettes'. Excerpts of the letter were first printed in the Courrier Francais , 3 March 1837, where it was said to have been previously in the possession a former maid of Madame de Warens. The letter was included in the sale of the Donnadieu Collection at Puttick and Simpson, London, 29 July 1851. R. A. Leigh Correspondance , I, 121-122 (1965)
ROUSSEAU, Jean Jacques (1712-1778). Autograph letter signed, partly unpublished , addressed to Madame de Warens ('Madame ma très Chère Maman') Grenoble, 29 April 1740 , informing her of the progress of his journey and various encounters and business matters, mentioning the salary Monsieur de Mably has promised him, worrying about her health, 'Mais ou trouverai-je, ma chère maman des discours assez touchants et assez persuasifs pour vous engager à dissiper mes allarmes par de plus grand soin sur vôtre santé, j'en recommande instamment le soin à toute vôtre maison ... tâches de la rétablir cette chère santé, afin de donner à vôtre fils un motif de zêle et d'encouragement plus efficace que toutes les vues du monde', promising to write from Lyon, sending messages for others, and urging her to take care of the library, 3 pages, 4to addressed on the verso of the 2nd leaf to 'Madame la Baronne de Warenne a Chambery' (fragment torn from lower margin of second leaf with part loss of one word, neatly repaired, strengthened with tape at centre fold on verso). An affectionate and touching letter, of which approximately half (17 lines) is unpublished, written when the years of idealised happiness with Madame de Warens over, Rousseau was on his way to take up the post of tutor to the children of Jean Bonnot de Mably, Provost General of Lyons. His first pedagogic work was to be written for the Provost's eldest son. Delayed by the lack of a coach at Grenoble, he has seen 'Monsieur D.' who had not forwarded his letter to Monsieur de Mably, 'à cause du mot de Père qui lui paroissait trop familier'. He sends greetings to Monsieur de Courcelles (his successor as Madame de Warens' secretary), and has conveyed a letter from 'Monsieur Ch.' to a lady who is too ill to write. He interpolates between messages 'Il me semble qu'il y a mille ans que j'ai quitté Les Charmettes'. Excerpts of the letter were first printed in the Courrier Francais , 3 March 1837, where it was said to have been previously in the possession a former maid of Madame de Warens. The letter was included in the sale of the Donnadieu Collection at Puttick and Simpson, London, 29 July 1851. R. A. Leigh Correspondance , I, 121-122 (1965)
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