Miscellany: French, 18th-20th centuries

Material formerly held in the Western Manuscripts Department's Autograph Letters Sequence: chiefly correspondence, with a few other assorted items.

1794-1924

83 items

Purchased from: Seine stalls, Paris, November 1927 (acc.67387); Charavay, Paris, December 1927 (acc.67371-67372), March 1928 (acc.67374), October 1928 / April 1929 (acc.63700), February 1930 (acc.55099), September 1930 (acc.63925), January 1934 (acc.67097), April 1934 (acc.67098) and 1935 (acc.68515); Desgranges, Paris, February 1929 (acc.56146), July 1930 (acc.63453), October 1930 (acc.63459), July 1932 (acc.65635) and April 1933 (acc.66041); an unknown vendor, Paris, April 1930 (acc.67391); Duhem, Montpellier, August 1930 (acc.63928); Stevens, London, January 1931 (acc.75745); probably Desgranges or Charavay, Paris, circa October 1933 (acc.66365); either from Desgranges, Paris, January 1936, or Glendining, London, c.1932 (acc.69292). No.44 presented by Boulangé, January 1928 (acc.67389). Nos.40-42 transferred to the Library from the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum in 1964 as part of the French Collection of books and manuscripts, whose earlier provenance is not recorded (acc.311223). Acquisition details of nos.47 and 55 not recorded.

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