Miscellany: French, 18th-20th centuries

Material formerly held in the Western Manuscripts Department's Autograph Letters Sequence.

1790-1961

85 items

Purchased from: Charavay, Paris, December 1927, March 1928, October 1928/April 1929, January 1930, February 1930, April 1931, October 1931, May 1932 and April 1936; an unknown vendor, Paris, April 1930; Desgranges, Paris, June 1930, July 1930, October 1930, and October 1935; Glendining, London, October 1932; probably Desgranges or Charavay, Paris, circa October 1933; Sotheby's, London, November 1933; either Desgranges, Paris, January 1936, or Glendining, London, c.1932. No. 64 transferred to the Library from the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum in 1964 as part of the French Collection of books and manuscripts, whose earlier provenance is not recorded. Accession details of nos. 27-29, 33-34, 43, 83 not recorded. (Accessions 55099, 63453, 63700, 63923, 64700, 64715, 65655, 66365, 67371, 67372, 67373, 67374, 67375, 67390, 67391, 67469, 67725, 69099, 69292, 69426 and 311223.)

Database description transcribed from Richard Aspin and Christopher Hilton's typescript supplement to S.A.J Moorat's Catalogue of Western Manuscripts.