Miscellany: French, 19th-20th centuries

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

1798-1926

180 items (including no.81A).

Acquired as part of collection of the Paris pharmacist Louis Debacq, 1919 (acc.42550). Purchased from: Charavay, Paris, December 1927 (acc.67371 and 67372), March 1928 (acc.67375), October 1928 / April 1929 (acc.63700), June 1929 (acc.67382 and 67383), July 1929 (acc.57070), February 1930 (acc.55099), April 1931 (acc.64716), October 1931 (acc.64700), January 1932 (acc.64878), November 1932 (acc.65657), July 1933 (acc.66363), October 1933 (acc.66364), January 1934 (acc.67097), April 1934 (acc.67098), at an unknown date before 1936 (acc.69220), January 1936 (acc.69286) and April 1936 (acc.69426); stalls, Paris, January 1928 (acc.67388); Desgranges, Paris, October 1928 (acc.56987), February 1929 (acc.56146), July 1930 (acc.63453), October 1930 (acc.63923), February 1931 (acc.64689), May 1931 (acc.64702 and 64704), November 1932 (acc.65667), January 1933 (acc.66034), November 1934 (acc.67135 and 67139), July 1935 (acc.69116) and July 1936 (acc.69616); an unknown vendor, Paris, April 1930 (acc.67391); Sotheby's, London, December 1930 (acc.73350), February 1932 (acc.76088) and November 1933 (acc.67469); Heck, Vienna, August 1932 (acc.65892 and 65895); probably Desgranges or Charavay, Paris, circa October 1933 (acc.66365); either Desgranges, Paris, January 1936, or Glendining, London, c.1932 (acc.69292). Acquisition details for nos.3-4, 12, 14-21, 32-34, 36-46, 48-50, 52-53, 63, 80, 102, 115, 126-132, 136-137, 140-145, 149, 153, 157, 171 and 179 not recorded. No. 68 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 (acc.311223).

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