Miscellany: French, 19th century

Material formerly held in the Western Manuscripts Department's Autograph Letters Sequence.

1794-1929

119 items

Purchased from: Charavay, Paris, December 1927 (acc.67371-67372), March 1928 (acc.67374), October 1928 / April 1929 (acc.63700), July 1929 (acc.57070), April 1931 (acc.64715-64716), October 1931 (acc.64700), April 1932 (acc.65157), November 1932 (acc.65657), January 1933 (acc.66024), January 1934 (acc.67097), April 1936 (acc.69426) and at an unknown date before 1936 (acc.69220); V. Degrange, Paris, October 1928 (acc.56987); an unknown vendor, Paris, April 1930 (acc.67391); Desgranges, Paris, July 1930 (acc.63453), October 1930 (acc.63459), February 1931 (acc.64689), January 1933 (acc.66033) and July 1936 (acc.69616); Heck, Vienna, August 1932 (acc.65895); Glendining, London, October 1933 (acc.67802); probably Desgranges or Charavay, Paris, circa October 1933 (acc.66365); Sotheby's, London, November 1933 (acc.67469); either Desgranges, Paris, January 1936, or Glendining, London, c.1932 (acc.69292). No.10 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); accession details of nos.2, 23-24, 27, 48-49, 60 and 107-108 not recorded.

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