Miscellany: French, 18th-20th centuries

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

Percheron, Mons., enrolled in the Service de Santé Militaire at Strasbourg, Printed pass with handwritten additions granting him leave of absence. 1863

Rufz de Lavison, Étienne (1806-1884), Martinique physician, 1 autograph letter, signed. 1851

Sabin, Dr. (fl.1808-1878), physician, 13 autograph prescriptions, signed (nos. 3-15) plus wrapper giving some biographical details of Sabin (no. 16). 1850-1855

Sabouraud, Raymond Jacques Adrien (1864-1938), dermatologist, 3 autograph letters, signed, probably to the Presse Medicale , giving date and subjects of forthcoming lectures at the St. Louis Hospital. 1909-1914

Sacc, Frederic (1819-1890), chemist at Neuchâtel, Switzerland, 1 autograph letter, signed, to a correspondent in Paris. 1849

Saidman, Jean (fl.1929), radiologist, 1 autograph letter, signed. 1929

Saillant, Dr. (fl.1790-1814), physician of St. Étienne-du-Mont, Paris, and Villiers-le-Bel, Val d'Oise, 4 autograph letters, 1810-1814 and n.d. (nos. 22-25), of which 3 are signed and 1 (no. 25) is incomplete, addressed to the physicians Edme-Claude Bourru (1741?-1823) (nos. 22 and 24), on the subject of haemorrhoids, and Antoine Laurent de Jussieu (1748-1836) (no. 23); also 1 autograph medical certificate, signed (no. 26), 1790. 1790-1814

Sainevic, Dr. (fl.1811), 2 autograph letters, signed, to J.B.B. Rocquefort, and 1 autograph note also for Rocquefort on the subject of biography. 1811

Saint-Hilaire, Jules Barthélemy (1805-1895), journalist and scholar, 6 autograph letters, signed, including 1 to Sir Anthony Panizzi (1797-1879), librarian of the British Museum (no. 31) and 1 written from the house of the orientalist Julius Mohl (1800-1876) and the salonnière and friend of Florence Nightingale Mary Clarke Mohl (1793-1883). 1833-1893

de Saint-Ursin, Marie (1763-1818), military physician, 1 autograph letter, signed, 1812 (no. 36); autograph poem, signed, on the birth of the King of Rome (son of Napoleon I: Napoleon François Charles Joseph Bonaparte, "Napoleon II", Duke of Reichstadt (1811-1832)), n.d. [c.1811?] (no. 37). c.1812

de Saint-Vallier, Raymond Jean Michel, Comte (1766-1837), chemist and Senator, 1 petition to the Minister of War with endorsement by Saint-Vallier, plus biographical note attached and wrapper (made from advertisement flyer from the Société Générale de Chauffage, dated 1884) with further biographical information. 1813-1884

Sainte-Marie, Étienne (1777-1829), physician, 2 autograph letters, signed. 1824-1829

Sainte-Preuve [Jacques Philippe Marie Binet] (1786-1856), mathematician, chemist, astronomer and writer, 2 autograph letters, signed, plus biographical note (inaccurate). 19th century

Sainte-Suzanne, Alexandre François Bruneteau, Baron (b.1769), military surgeon, Note detailing his career, by Frédéric Deville. c.19th century

Sainton, Marie Adolphe Paul (b.1868), endocrinologist, 5 autograph letters, signed, to the Presse Medicale , giving date and subjects of forthcoming lectures. 1924-1927

Sales-Girons, Jean (1808-1879), medical journalist, 3 autograph letters, signed. 1860-1870

Salimbeni, A.T. (1867-1942), Institut Pasteur, 1 autograph letter, signed, plus envelope. The letter carries the date January 1910; however, the postmark identifies this as a slip for 1911. 1911

Salmade, Mathieu Antoine (1766-1838), anatomist, surgeon to Louis XVIII and Charles X, member of Central Vaccination Committee, 2 autograph letters, signed. 1806-1816

Salmon, E. (fl.1864), balneologist at the Royan sea bathing establishment, 1 autograph letter, signed. 1864

Salmon, Urbain Pierre (1767-1805), military surgeon, 1 autograph medical certificate, signed. 1803

Salvetat, Louis Alphonse (b.1820), ceramic chemist at the Sèvres imperial porcelain factory, 1 autograph letter, signed, with attached biographical note. 1853

Sandras, Claude Marie Stanislas (1802-1856), physician, secretary-general of the Société de Médicine de Paris, 1 autograph letter, signed, 1847 (no. 59); 1 note, in Sandras' hand, of his request to replace one of the physicians recently retired from the Hötel-Dieu, n.d. (no. 60). c.1847

Sanson, Louis Joseph (1790-1841), surgeon to King Louis-Philippe, 2 autograph letters, signed. 1831-1835

de Saporta, Louis Charles Joseph Gaston, Marquess (1823-1895), botanist and palaeontologist, 1 autograph letter, signed. 1882

Sappey, Constant (1810-1896), Professor at the Paris Faculty of Medicine, 1 autograph letter, signed, to the publisher Victor Masson. 1850

Sarlandière, Jean Baptiste (1787-1838), military surgeon, 1 autograph letter, signed, to the surgeon Jean Zuléma Amussat (1796-1865), 1831 (no. 65); 1 autograph petition concerning Sarlandière's wish to be admitted to the Légion d'Honneur, signed and with supporting endorsements from various other figures, 1831 (no. 66). 1831

Saucerotte, Antoine Constant (1805-1884), physician, 1 autograph letter, signed, submitting an article on fashion in medicine to a periodical. 19th century

de Saussure, Adrienne Albertine Necker (1765-1841), author, 1 autograph letter, signed. 18th century - 19th century

de Saussure, Nicholas Théodore (1767-1845), chemist and naturalist, 1 autograph letter, signed, plus wrapper originally used to hold this item and no. 68. 1815

Sauvez, Emile (1866-1927), physician, 1 autograph letter, signed. 1912

Savary, Félix (1791-1841), physician and physicist, 1 autograph letter, signed. 19th century

de Savigny, Jules César Lelorgne (1777-1851), entomologist and navigator, Manuscript memorandum of agreement between Savigny, the publishers Treuttel & Wurtz and the bookseller Déterville, concerning Savigny's Mémoire sur les animaux sans vetébres , signed by the various parties. 1817

Say, Léon (1826-1896), politician, economist and financier, 1 autograph letter, signed. 1884

Schedel, Henri Édouard (1804-1856), dermatologist, 1 autograph letter, signed, concerning a quotation from Jean Jacques Rousseau. 1852

Scheurer-Kestner, Auguste (1833-1899), chemist and politician, 5 autograph letters, signed, 1862-1896 and n.d. (nos. 75-79), including 2 apparently to Dr. V. Scheuer of Spa (nos. 77-78); printed page, apparently from a memorial publication, with photograph of Scheurer-Kestner, c.1899 (no. 80); wrapper used to hold nos. 77-78 when they formed part of the autograph collection of Dr. V. Scheuer, with details of Scheurer-Kestner's career, n.d. (no. 81). 1862-1896

Schuster, Mons. (fl.1839), zoologist, 1 autograph letter, signed. 1839

Schweitzer, Albert (1875-1975), physician, Protestant clergyman and philosopher, 1 autograph letter, signed, to Dr. Clement C. Chesterman in London, from Lambaréné (Gabon), plus envelope and typed translation on Chesterman's headed paper. 1961

Schwickardi, Louis (b.1813), engineer and chemist, 1 autograph report to the Minister of the Interior, 1854 (no. 84); passport, printed and manuscript, authorising Schwickardi to travel to London, 1851 (no. 85). 1851-1854

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.