Thoüin Family correspondence and miscellaneous papers

Material formerly held in the Western Manuscripts Department's Autograph Letters Sequence, relating to André Thoüin (1747-1824), head of the Jardin des Plantes, Paris; his younger brothers Jacques Thoüin (1751-1836), Gabriel Thoüin (d.1829) and Jean Thoüin (d.1827); and their nephew Oscar Leclerc [Thoüin] (1798-1845), the son of their sister Louise Thoüin (b.c. 1764) and the writer and Revolutionary activist Jean-Baptiste Leclerc (1756-1826). All were linked with the Jardin des Plantes in Paris and the worlds of botany and agriculture in some capacity for more details on the various individuals see Le jardin des plantes ä la croisée des chemins avec Andre Thoüin, 1747-1824, edited by Yvonne Letouzey (Paris, 1989).

1774-1828

60 items

Purchased from: Charavay, Paris, October 1928/April 1929, April 1931, October 1931and at an unknown date before 1936; Desgranges, Paris, October 1930, January 1933; probably Desgranges or Charavay, Paris, circa October 1933; Sotheby's, London, May 1934; either Desgranges, Paris, January 1936, or Glendining, London, c.1932. Acquisition details of nos. 33, 35-36 not recorded.

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