Miscellany: French, 18th-20th centuries

Material, chiefly 19th century, formerly held in the Western Manuscripts Department's Autograph Letters Sequence.

1798-1926

90 items

Purchased from: Charavay, Paris, December 1927 (acc.67372), March 1928 (acc.67374), October 1928 / April 1929 (acc.63700), July 1929 (acc.57070), February 1930 (acc.55099), August 1932 (acc.65656), November 1932 (acc.65657), January 1933 (acc.66024), July 1933 (acc.66363), April 1934 (acc.67098), July 1935 (acc.69124), an unknown date in 1935 (acc.68515) and April 1936 (acc.69426); an unknown vendor in Paris, April 1930 (acc.67391); Desgranges, Paris, July 1930 (acc.63453), October 1930 (acc.63459 and 63923), February 1931 (acc.64689 and 64694), May 1931 (acc.64702) and September 1932 (acc.65659); Stevens, London, September 1930 (acc.55785); Sotheby's, London, November 1933 (acc.67469 and 67473); Nouvry, Paris, January 1936 (acc.69310). No.40 part of a batch of material transferred from Wellcome Historical Medical Museum offices: provenance not known (acc.69200). Nos.75-76 presented by Boulangé, January 1928 (acc.67389). Accession details of nos.2, 70-72 not recorded.

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