de Saussure, Horace Bénédict (1740-1799), Swiss naturalist
- Date:
- 1771-1778
- Reference:
- MS.7587/4-5
- Part of:
- Miscellany: French, 18th century
- Archives and manuscripts
About this work
Description
2 autograph letters, signed, including 1 to the physician, anatomist and botanist Albrecht von Haller (1708-1777) (no. 4) and 1 with accompanying biographical cutting (no. 5).
The letter to von Haller is published in The correspondence between Albrecht von Haller and Horace-Bénédict de Saussure ed. Otto Sonntag (Bern, 1990).
Publication/Creation
1771-1778
Physical description
2 items
Finding aids
Database description transcribed from Richard Aspin and Christopher Hilton's typescript supplement to S.A.J Moorat's Catalogue of Western Manuscripts.