Recamier, Joseph Claude Anthelme (1774-1852), French physician

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

1-30 Thirty signed autograph letters and notes by Recamier 1811-1848, including letters to Étienne Pariset (1770-1847) (no.9), Jean Zuléma Amussat (1796-1856) (nos.12, 17, 20, 25 and 29), Hippolyte Royer-Collard (1802-1850) (no.15), Gaspard Joseph Martin Saint-Ange (1803-1888) (no.16), Jean Baptiste Nacquart (1780-1853) (no.17) and Jules Cloquet (1790-1883) (no.19)..

31-32 Letters by other persons bearing endorsements by Recamier, 1822-1836.

33-40 Autograph prescriptions, mainly signed by Recamier, 1816-1844.

41 Signed statement by Recamier concerning a Paris cholera epidemic, 1832.

42-48 Autograph certificates, signed by Recamier and others, 1806-1849.

49 Manuscript bill for medical services rendered by Recamier to Baron Elberg, 1822.

50 Note by Recamier concerning a "ceinture hypogastrique", 19th century.

51 Printed receipt, signed, concerning a government disbursement, with endorsements by Recamier and others, 1799.

52 Printed form granting a student leave from the Hôtel-Dieu hospital, completed and signed by Recamier, 1825.

53 Recamier's signature, cut out and mounted, 19th century.

54-55 Notes concerning Recamier by a Professor Bouillet, 1896.

56 Dealer's note concerning various items listed above, 20th century.

57-62 Autograph letters, signed by Étienne Recamier, 1854.

1799-1896

62 items

Purchased from: Charavay, Paris, December 1927 (acc.67371), March 1928 (acc.67375), October 1928 / April 1929 (acc.63700), June 1929 (acc.67382), July 1929 (acc.57070), January 1933 (acc.66024) ) and at an unknown date before 1937 (acc.69806); an unknown vendor, Paris, April 1930 (acc.67391); Seine stalls, Paris, July 1930 (acc.63924); Desgranges, Paris, July 1930 (acc.63453), February 1931 (acc.64689), January 1933 (acc.66034), July 1936 (acc.69617); Heck, Vienna, August 1932 (acc.65895); probably from Desgranges or Charavay, Paris, circa October 1933 (acc.66365); Sotheby's, London, November 1933 (acc.67469). No.15 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 acquisition details recorded for nos.1, 4 and 60.

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