Miscellany, Portuguese and Spanish, 19th century

Date:
1810-1857
Reference:
MS.9262
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Description

A small collection of miscellaneous documents in Portuguese or Spanish, 1810-1857.

1. Order for supplies addressed to the 'Commisario Geral [sic] dos Drogas Britanicos' in Celorico da Beira, Portugal. N.p., 22 July 1810.

2. Letters-patent of Pedro I, Emperor of Brazil, appointing Jorge Clarence to the post of 'capitão de fragata' in the Brazilian navy. Rio de Janeiro, 23 January 1828

3. Letter from Francisco de Aldecoa to Don Manuel Bernaldez Pizarro in Madrid, on the fate of Spanish troops suffering from scurvy in the Philippines. Anger [?Preanger, Java. ], 8 August 1830.

4. Fragment of a passport for John Dalrymple Horsman, commander of the [East India Company] ship Duke of Sussex, issued by the authorities in Manila, the Philippines, 1 December 1837.

5. Diploma of Isabella II, Queen of Spain, awarding the cross of the 'Orden de la Beneficencia' to the physician Juan Bautista Perron. Madrid, 30 November 1857.

6. Note from ?J.B.S. to an unidentified correspondent. Spanish. 1858

Publication/Creation

1810-1857

Physical description

6 pieces 6 documents of various sizes

Acquisition note

The documents were acquired from various sources: no 1 was purchased at Stevens, London, in March 1931 (acc.68126) and 2 at Stevens in August 1919, though only accessioned in January 1941 (acc.92243). No 3 was purchased at Sotheby's in February 1932 (acc.76075), and 5 from Charavay, Paris, in April 1931 (acc.64715). The provenance of documents 4 and 6 is unknown (although the former bears the erroneous accession number 89396).

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