Orfila, Mathieu Joseph (Matheo José) Bonaventure (1787-1853), Minorca-born chemist and toxicologist

Material (primarily correspondence) formerly held in the Department's Autograph Letters Sequence: correspondence by Orfila or his family, notes, reviews, prescriptions, certificates and financial documentation

1816-1869

240 items

Purchased from: Charavay, Paris, December 1927 (acc.67371); October 1928 / April 1929 (acc.63700), June 1929 (acc.67382), May 1930 (acc.55098), October 1931 (acc.64700), April 1932 (acc.65157), September 1934 (acc. 67126), January 1936 (acc.69286) and at an unknown date before 1936 (acc.69220); H. Barral, Montpellier, June 1928 (acc.57024); Desgranges, Paris, October 1928 (acc.56987), February 1929 (acc.56146), February 1930 (acc.55165), July 1930 (acc.63453), October 1930 (acc.63459), February 1931 (acc.64689), May 1931 (acc.64702), September 1931 (acc.64713), November 1932 (acc.65667), January 1933 (acc.66033), April 1933 (acc.66041), January 1934 (acc.66597), July 1935 (acc.69116) and July 1936 (acc.69617); Stevens, London, March 1930 (acc.56583), October 1930 (acc.56429), December 1930 (acc.68108 and 68109), January 1931 (acc.75746), February 1931 (possibly February 1932) (acc.68295), March 1931 (acc.56474) and May 1931 (acc.68155); an unknown vendor, Paris, April 1930 (acc.67391); Sotheby's, London, February 1932 (acc.76088), November 1932 (acc.58802), November 1933 (acc.67469 and 67473) and May 1934 (acc.62778); Heck, Vienna, August 1932 (acc.65895); probably Desgranges or Charavay, Paris, circa October 1933 (acc.66365); Glendining, London, November 1933 (acc.67815), February 1934 (acc.68004) and August 1935 (possibly an error for 1934) (acc.67872); either from Desgranges, Paris, January 1936 or Glendining, London, circa 1932 (acc.69293). Acquired as part of the Debacq Collection, 1919 (acc.42550). Accession details of nos.2, 4, 8, 16-17, 26, 28, 37, 51, 54-55, 61-62, 69, 74, 77, 79, 81, 86, 89, 93-94, 101-103, 110, 113, 118, 124, 146, 148-150, 152, 154, 156, 158, 176, 183-184, 190-192, 200-207, 209-216, 220, 223-225, 230, 232, 234-240 not recorded.

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