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Miscellany: French language material, 19th-20th centuries
- Date:
- 1801-1930
- Reference:
- MS.7317
- Archives and manuscripts
Collection contents
About this work
Description
Material formerly held in the Western Manuscripts Department's Autograph Letters Sequence, in alphabetical order.
Publication/Creation
1801-1930
Physical description
246 items
Acquisition note
Most items purchased in Paris: from Charavay, between December 1927 and April 1936 (acc.55098, 55099, 63700, 64700, 64715, 64716, 67097, 67129, 67372, 67374, 67375, 68515, 69128, 69220 and 69426); from Desgranges, between July 1930 and April 1933 (acc.63453, 63459, 64689, 64702, 65635, 65659 and 66041); either from Desgranges, Paris, January 1936 or Glendining, London, circa 1932 (acc.69292); from an unknown vendor in Paris, April 1930 (acc.67391). Other sources include: purchased from Sotheby's, London, November 1933 (acc.67473); presented by Boulangé, January 1928 (acc.67389); found in a copy of Accouchers et sages-femmes célébres: esquisses biographiques [1891?] by Gustave Joseph Witkowski, purchased from Le François, Paris, c.1930 (acc.55101). Accession details of a few items not recorded.
Finding aids
Described in typescript supplements, by Christopher Hilton and Richard Aspin, to the Library's published finding aids.
Languages
- French
Subjects
- Drug Prescriptions
- Military Medicine
- General Practitioners
- General Surgery
- Surgeons
- Physicians
- Disabled Persons
- Occupational Therapy
- Neurosurgery
- Poetry
- Burial
- Chemists
- Geologists
- Geology
- Naturalists
- Pharmacists
- Scientists
- Physics
- Astronomers
- Egyptology
- Archaeology
- Baths
- Hydrotherapy
- Neurasthenia
- Agriculture
- Orthopedics
- Ophthalmology
- Biography
- Ophthalmologists
- Pathology
- Obstetricians
- Obstetrics
- Midwifery
- Anatomists
- Anatomy
- Paralysis
- Pharynx
- Mineral Waters
- Balneology
- Hygiene
- Travel
- Otolaryngology
- Dentists
- Botanists
- Epilepsy
- Artists
- Colic
- Mental Disorders
- Psoriasis
- Charities
- Libraries
- Journalism, Medical
Where to find it
Location Status Access Closed stores