Napoleonic miscellany

Miscellaneous letters and papers relating to Napoleon I and his family

1. Letter from Joséphine Bonaparte (1763-1814), first wife of Napoleon Bonaparte, signed 'Lapagerie Bonaparte', to citizen Caille, 'Secrétaire Intime du Ministre de la Police Générale'. Paris, 14 pluviôse an ?VII [?2 February 1799]

2. Letter from Marie-Louise (1791-1847), Empress of the French and Duchess of Parma, second wife of Napoleon I, to a personal correspondent named 'Victoire'. N.p., 19 January 1803

3. Letter from [Jean] Maximilien Lamarque (1770-1832) to Lucien Bonaparte (1775-1840), prince of Canino and Musignano, Napoleon's younger brother, presenting his respects. Paris, 16 vendémiaire an XIV [7 October 1806]. Annotated by Lucien Bonaparte with his instructions to invite Lamaque to dinner, signed 'L.B.'

4. Letter from Napoleon I to Jean-Nicolas Corvisart (1755-1821), baron Corvisart, his physician, thanking him for his loyalty and enquiring after the Empress Marie-Louise. N.p., 28 April 1814. Lithograph facsimile with 20th cent transcription.

5. Letter from the Empress Marie-Louise to 'Victoire', about personal and family matters. N.p., 27 March 1815

6. Memorandum by [Barry Edward O'Meara (1786-1836), naval surgeon], on the circumstances surrounding Napoleon's surrender to the British aboard HMS Bellerophon in Torbay on 7 August 1815. Attested by M. Gunthorpe, former commander of H.M. cruizer Vigilant.

7. Letter from Sir Hudson Lowe (1769-1844), army officer and governor of St Helena, to an unidentified correspondent, sending a copy of Mme de Staël's Considérations sur les principaux événements de la Révolution française for Napoleon. N.p., 25 September 1818.

8. Memorandum by [René-Eustache (1751-1838), marquis d'Osmond, French ambassador in London], on medical and other personnel destined for Napoleon's service on St Helena. N.p., January 1819. Subscribed 'pour M. de Fossombrony'.

9. Letter from Countess Françoise-Elisabeth ('Fanny') Bertrand, wife of Henri-Gratien Bertrand, Napoleon's Grand Marshal of the Palace, to Sir Hudson Lowe, asking him to allow daily visits to her family by Napoleon's physician Dr Verling. Longwood, [St Helena], 26 September, [1819].

10. Notification by Aleksandr Antonovich Balmain (d. 1848), Russian Commissioner on St Helena, to Messrs Harman and Co., [bankers] of London, relating to his expenses. St Helena, 18 April 1820. Pasted onto a paper mount on which a specimen of the signature of Admiral Sir George Cockburn (1772-1853), who 'conveyed Napoleon Bonaparte to St Helena' is also affixed.

11-13. Facsimiles of handwritten extracts from Napoleon's memoirs written or dictated on Saint Helena. Engraved by Pierre Tardieu. N.d.

14. Letter of thanks from Letizia Bonaparte (1750-1836), mother of Napoleon I, to her granddaughter Christine Charlotte Bonaparte (1795-1865), Princess Gabrielli. Albano, 15 August 1826.

15. Letter from Joseph Fesch (1763-1839), cardinal, uncle of Napoleon I, to François Marius Granet (1775-1849), 'Conservateur de Tableaux des Musées Royaux', requesting the despatch of medicaments from Paris. Rome, 26 September 1830.

16. Letter from the Empress Marie-Louise to an unidentified correspondent ('mon cher chevalier') about her health. Ischia, 5 September 1839.

17. Petition from Jean-Nicolas Gannal (1791-1852), French chemist, to 'MM les Membres Du Conseil de Salubrété et MM les Membres de la Commission Chargé de Veiller à la translation des restes de l'empereur Napoleon', to allow him to conserve the mortal remains of the late Emperor. N.p., [c. 1842].

18. Letter from Pauline Bonaparte (1780-1825), sister of Napoleon I, to [Lucien] Bonaparte (1775-1840), her brother, on personal matters. [Place indecipherable], 3 September, n.y

19. Letter from the Empress Marie-Louise to an unidentified correspondent ('Monsieur le comte') on private matters. Paris, n.d.

20-22. Letters from Louis Lucien Bonaparte (1813-1891), third son of Napoleon's second surviving brother, Lucien Bonaparte, to various English-speaking correspondents, 1863-91.