Antoine Lavoisier (1743-1794)

Material formerly held in the Wellcome Library Autograph Letters series.

Note to M. le Margini, 27 October 1777.

Letter to M. Richard, administrator of ports, Paris, 11 April 1786.

Printed Ferme Générale lease, Jean-Baptiste Mager, which had been due to run from 1 January 1787-31 December 1792 but was cut short due to the revolution. Signed by all 40 farmers-general, including Lavoisier and his father in law, Jacques Paulze, Paris, 10 April 1786.

Note to M. [illegible], Paris, 3 April 1788.

Letter to M. de la Fontaine of the Royal Treasury, Paris, 28 September 1790.

Letter to an unnamed recipient, Paris, 1 May 1791. The letter refers to an attached plan, which has not survived.

Note to M. Gislain, Paris, 4 October 1791. Sent on behalf of the commissioners of the National Treasury.

Letter to M. Poiré, Paris, 8 July 1792.

Letter to M. Mosle in Geneva, Paris, 15 June 1793.

Letter, signed "Lavoisier" but the signature is clearly not that of Antoine Lavoisier, Paris, 8 August 1786. Also includes typed transcript, and handwritten note dated 12 July 1982 by William Smeaton of University College London on possible authors of the letter.

Note, not by Antoine Lavoisier (signature unclear), 1790.

1777-1793

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Purchased from Charavay, Paris, January 1930 (acc.67373), January 1932 (acc.64874), May 1932 (acc.65655), and July 1935 (acc.69124); Stevens, London, September 1930 (acc.56560); and Seine stalls, Paris, April 1931(acc.64729). Acc.66365 was probably purchased from Desgranges or Charavay, Paris, circa October 1933.

Antoine-Laurent de Lavoisier (known as Antoine Lavoisier after the French Revolution) was born in Paris in 1743, and was executed in the same city on 8 May 1794. He is often called the "father of modern chemistry" and was responsible for the discovery of oxygen's role in respiration and combustion, amongst other things.