La correspondance de Madame de Graffigny

Abstract

J. A. Dainard et al. : Mme de Graffigny's correspondence. The purpose of this article is to announce a critical edition of the correspondence of Madame de Graffigny, by a team of researchers mainly from the University of Toronto. The interest and usefulness of such an edition are demonstrated, and the historical background of the author and her letters is given. In the appendices are to be found the text of an unpublished letter and inventories of the letters already discovered by the editors, including a guide to the Graffigny Papers at Yale University, where the majority of manuscript letters are located. Readers are asked to write to the general editor if they know of letters not mentioned in the article.