(Nicolas) Rene Marjolin (1812-1895): correspondence

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.

1849-1894

241 items

Purchased from Degrange, Paris, 1932-33.

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).