Miscellaneous: French, 19th-20th centuries

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

1801-1927

138 items.

Purchased from: Puttick & Simpson, London, January 1920 (from the Monckton Collection) (acc.40329); Charavay, Paris, December 1927 (acc.67371 and 67372), March 1928 (acc.67374 and 67375), October 1928 / April 1929 (acc.63700), November 1929 (acc.67384), February 1930 (acc.55099), April 1931 (acc.64715 and 64716), April 1932 (acc.65157), July 1933 (acc.66363), November 1934 (acc.67129), July 1935 (acc.69124), at an unknown date before 1936 (acc.69220) and April 1936 (acc.69426); Desgranges, Paris, February 1929 (acc.56146), July 1930 (acc.63453), October 1930 (acc.63459), February 1931 (acc.64689) and July 1932 (acc.65635); an unknown vendor, Paris, April 1930 (acc.67391); Heck, Vienna, August 1932 (acc.65895); probably from Desgranges or Charavay, Paris, circa October 1933 (acc.66365); Glendining, London, August 1935 (possibly an error for 1934) (acc.67878); either from Desgranges, Paris, January 1936, or Glendining, London, circa 1932 (acc.69292); Judith Grant, London, November 1997 (acc.350775). No.2 presented by Boulangé, January 1928 (acc.67389). Accession details of nos.21-22, 24-25, 36-38, 40-42 and 113-115 not recorded.

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