COLLECTION. A collection of approximately 50 manuscript pieces and 4 printed works, 17th century; one in-4 volume, bound in period speckled brown calfskin (binding worn, spine damaged). Miscellaneous pieces: letters (to Despréaux, from the Duke of Nevers to the Duke of Grammont, from Abbé Senlec to Mr. Bontemps), epigrams, stanzas, madrigals, rondeaux, an elegy on the death of the Marquis d’Estampes at the “Battle of Hoctset,” poems by Mme Deshoulières, Madeleine de Scudéry, and the Duke of Nevers; a letter from Pavillon on the death of his dog; recipes (how to cook rice)… etc. Three documents concern “the titles presented to the Abbey of Saint-Germain-des-Prés regarding the House of La Tour d’Auvergne.” Several documents concern religion and religious controversies: a petition from parish priests to the King, a letter regarding Lully’s burial, Santeuil the Penitent, a letter from the Fathers of La Trappe (1694), sonnets to Bishop de Cambrai (Fénelon), Origin of the Names and Uses of the Pockets of the Capuchin Fathers… Among the printed materials are factums, an ordinance from the Archbishop of Paris, a protest by the Marquis de Lavardin, etc. Enclosed: Jean de Bonnefon, *Imperial Drama: What Cannot Be Said in Berlin* (Dentu, 1888), with a dedication to the Duke of Trévise.