Autograph letters signed (3) : [n.p.], to [Anne Robert Jacques] Turgot, ca. 1776.

Turgot, Anne-Robert-Jacques, baron de l'Aulne, 1727-1781

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French statesman under Louis XVI, economist associated with the Physiocrat school, and writer. From the description of Letter, 1775, to Condorcet. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 754866739 Turgot, French statesman and economist, most remembered for his book, Réflexions sur la formation et la distribution des richesses (Reflections on the formation and distrubtion of wealth). The Marquis de Condorcet was mentored by and wrote a biography on Turgot. From the descri...

Condorcet, Marie Jean Antoine Nicolas de Caritat, marquis de, 1743-1794.

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Ray, Gordon Norton, 1915-1986

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Gordon N. Ray, a graduate of Indiana University, was closely associated with the life and work of William Makepeace Thackeray. His four volume edition of the Letters and private papers appeared in 1945-1946 and his two volume biography in 1954-1955. From 1963 to 1985 Ray was president of the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation. Ray was also an outstanding collector of English and French illustrated books. His collections formed the bases of two exhibitions held at the Pierpont Morgan Library that w...