Miscellany: French, 19th and 20th centuries

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

1802-1925

176 items

Purchased from: Charavay, Paris, December 1927 (acc.67371 and 67372), March 1928 (acc.67374), October 1928 / April 1929 (acc.63700), February 1930 (acc.55099), April 1931 (acc.64715), April 1932 (acc.65157), May 1932 (acc.65655), November 1934 (acc. 67129), April 1936 (acc.69426) and at an unknown date before 1936 (acc.69220); Desgranges, Paris, February 1929 (acc.56146), July 1930 (acc.63453), October 1930 (acc.63459), February 1931 (acc.64689), November 1932 (acc.65667), January 1933 (acc.66033), April 1933 (acc.66041), July 1935 (acc.69116), January 1936 (acc.69286) and July 1936 (acc.69615); an unknown vendor, Paris, April 1930 (acc.67391); Duhem, Montpellier, August 1930 (acc.63928); Sotheby's, London, December 1930 (acc.73350), February 1932 (acc.76088) and November 1933 (acc.67469); Stevens, London, March 1931 (acc.56487); Hodgson's, London, October 1931 (acc.86943); probably Desgranges or Charavay, Paris, circa October 1933 (acc.66365); Glendining, London, October 1933 (acc.67802); either Desgranges, Paris, January 1936 or Glendining, London, circa 1932 (acc.69292). Presented by Boulangé, January 1928 (acc.67389). No.81 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). No accession details known for nos.4, 39-41, 55, 68, 90, 98, 122.

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