Velpeau, Alfred Armand Louis Marie (1795-1867), French surgeon

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

1831-1867

45 items

Purchased from: H. Barral, Montpellier, June 1928 (acc.57024); Charavay, Paris, October 1928 / April 1929 (acc.63700), July 1929 (acc.57070), February 1930 (acc.55099), April 1931 (acc.64715), October 1931 (acc.64718) and January 1932 (acc.64878); an unknown vendor, Paris, April 1930 (acc.67391 and 67394); Desgranges, Paris, October 1930 (acc.63459), September 1932 (acc.65659) and November 1932 (acc.65667); probably Desgranges or Charavay, Paris, circa October 1933 (acc.66365); Sotheby's, London, February 1932 (acc.76088) and November 1933 (acc.67469); Mrs. Watson, Burnley, March 1945 (acc.72200), presumably once part of the Thomas Madden Stone autograph collection. No.17 transferred from Wellcome Historical Medical Museum, c.1939 (acc.91800), previous provenance unknown. Accession details of nos.5-6, 21-23, 25, 29, 31, 36 and 44 not recorded.

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