Autograph letter signed, dated : [n.p., Paris?, n.d.], to [Jacques-Joseph Champollion-Figeac], [n.d.].

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Autograph letter signed, dated : [n.p., Paris?, n.d.], to [Jacques-Joseph Champollion-Figeac], [n.d.].

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Inviting him to dine with them, and saying that he will have a very curious letter that leaves him greatly perplexed; in order to decipher it "j'ai besoin du savant interprete de l'inscription de Rossete & du futur revelateur de la langue etrusque."

1 item (1 p.) ; (8vo)

Pierpont Morgan Library.

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Mérimée, Prosper, 1803-1870

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Champollion-Figeac, M. (Jacques-Joseph), 1778-1867

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