Louis Jean Marie Daubenton (1715-1800)

Letters and other items by or relating to Daubenton, including 2 letters annotated, erroneously, as being to the naturalist Bernardin de Saint-Pierre (1737-1814) (nos. 1, 7 and 12-13), of which one is possibly to the statesman Anne Robert Jacques Turgot, Baron de l'Aulne (1727-1781) (no. 7); 1 letter to the scientist Nicolas Desmarest (1725-1815), later used by an unknown hand to make notes on glaciers (no. 3); 1 legal agreement between Daubenton and the publisher Charles Joseph Panckoucke, signed by both parties (no. 6); 2 receipts signed by Daubenton (nos. 9 and 10), of which 1 (no. 10) mentions a member of the Thoüin family.

1777-1801

19 items

Original database description, subsequently expanded, was transcribed from Richard Aspin and Christopher Hilton's typescript supplement to S.A.J Moorat's Catalogue of Western Manuscripts. The description in its current form was compiled with the assistance of M. François Poplin.