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Sage, Balthasar Georges (1740-1824), French chemist. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Sage, Balthasar Georges (1740-1824), French chemist
- Sage, Balthasar Georges, 1740-1824.
- Date:
- 1776-1824
- Reference:
- MS.7570
- Archives and manuscripts
- Online
About this work
Description
49 autograph letters and notes by Sage, mostly autograph and signed (attached to no. 25 is a printed letter from Sage to the Minister of the Interior), formerly held in the Western Manuscripts collection's Autograph Letters Sequence.
Correspondents include the mineralogist Jean Baptiste Louis de Romé de l'Isle (1736-1790) (nos. 2-3, 5-6, 29-32); nos. 26-27 refer to balloon flights and to "M. de Montgolfier".
In chronological order, with numerous undated items at the end of the collection; in addition, material carrying no year but using the revolutionary calendar of 1792-1805 for the names of months is kept at the appropriate point in the chronological sequence (nos. 10-16)
Also including a printed invitation to Sage's funeral (no. 50).
Publication/Creation
1776-1824
Physical description
50 items
Contributors
Acquisition note
Purchased from: Charavay, Paris, December 1927 (acc.67371), October 1928 / April 1929 (acc.63700) and September 1934 (acc.67126); Desgranges, Paris, October 1930 (acc.63459 and 63923), February 1931 (acc.64689) and September 1932 (acc.65659); Stevens, London, December 1930 (acc.68108); Glendining, London, September 1933 (acc.67765); probably Desgranges or Charavay, Paris, circa October 1933 (acc.66365). Accession details not recorded for nos.4, 7, 10, 13 and 32.
Finding aids
Database description transcribed from Richard Aspin and Christopher Hilton's typescript supplement to S.A.J Moorat's Catalogue of Western Manuscripts
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Accession number
- Various - see Acquisition note.