Jean Nicholas Marjolin (1780-1850) and his son, (Nicholas) René Marjolin (1812-1895): correspondence, certificates, notes etc.

Date:
1849-1894
Reference:
MSS.5652 & 7310
Part of:
Jean Nicholas Marjolin (1780-1850) and his son , (Nicholas) René Marjolin (1812-1895): surgeons and morbid anatomists
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Description

Letters from René Marjolin to his friend Edmond Dascols. The letters relate mainly to personal affairs, and the health of the Dascols family (with advice on cholera and other maladies).

Included are letters from Paris at the time of the siege and the Commune, 1870-1871, when Marjolin was active in treating the wounded prior to his arrest as a Bonapartist agent.

Publication/Creation

1849-1894

Physical description

349 items

Acquisition note

Purchased from Degrange, Paris, 1932-33.

Finding aids

Database description taken from that in: Richard Palmer, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts in the Wellcome Library for the History & Understanding of Medicine: Western Manuscripts 5120-6244 (London: The Wellcome Library for the History & Understanding of Medicine, 1999); and typescript supplements to those catalogues, produced by Richard Aspin and Christopher Hilton.

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Accession number

  • acc. 65658, 66034