Tissot, Simon André (1728-1797), Swiss-French physician

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

1781-1795

10 items

Purchased from: H. Barral, Montpellier, June 1928 (acc.57024); Charavay, Paris, September 1928 (acc.56985); Stevens, London, August 1930 (acc.63382); Heck, Vienna, August 1932 (acc.65895); probably Desgranges or Charavay, Paris, circa October 1933 (acc.66365). Nos. 8-9 transferred from W.H.M.M. offices, c.1936, previous provenance unknown (acc.91486). Accession details of no.6 not recorded.

Samuel Auguste André David Tissot was a physician based in Lausanne, at that time within the Canton of Bern. Further information on his life can be found (under the name Auguste Tissot) in the Dictionnaire historique & biographique de la Suisse ed. Marcel Godet, Henri Türler and Victor Attinger (Neuchâtel: Administration du Dictionnaire historique et biographique de la Suisse, 1921 [i.e. 1920]-1934), vol.6.

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