Vous n’avez point eû de mes nouvelles monsieur, parce que depuis six semaines ou deux mois je suis noire comme de l’encre, ne prenant part à rien, m’ennuyant de tout, sans désirs, sans sentiment, et m’affligeant toujours du malheur d’être née
The paper is watermarked with three different watermarks: text reading ‘Sebille van Ketel & Wassenbergh’; a shield with the initials ‘SKW’; and text reading ‘D&C Blauw’.
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Additional Comments:
The text is contained within frames of plummet. The binder’s blank flyleaves at the beginning and end are in c.19th wove paper. The binder has titled the collection: ‘Recueil de letters. Tome 1’.
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Decorations:
Undecorated
Additions:
There are corrections and marginal notes scattered throughout. Additional pencil annotations have been added in a later hand.