Miscellany: French, 19-20th centuries

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

1802-1935

122 items

Purchased from: Sotheby's, London, June 1927 (acc.57010); Charavay, Paris, December 1927 (acc.67371), March 1928 (acc.67374), October 1928 / April 1929 (acc.63700), July 1929 (acc.57070), January 1930 (acc.67373), February 1930 (acc.55099), April 1933 (acc.66028), July 1935 (acc.69124), August 1935 (acc.68544), an unspecified date in 1935 (acc.68515), January 1936 (acc.69286) and April 1936 (acc.69426); Desgranges, Paris, October 1928 (acc.56987), February 1929 (acc.56146), February 1930 (acc.55165), October 1930 (acc.63459), February 1931 (acc.64689) and September 1932 (acc.65659); an unknown vendor, Paris, April 1930 (acc.67391); Duhem, Montpellier, August 1930 (acc.63928); Stevens, London, February 1932 (acc.68379) and October 1932 (acc.68323); Glendining, London, October 1933 (acc.67784); probably Desgranges or Charavay, Paris, circa October 1933 (acc.66365); Sotheby's, London, November 1933 (acc.67469) and May 1934 (acc.62778); either from Desgranges, Paris, January 1936 or Glendining, London, c.1932 (acc.69292). Transferred from the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum to the Library at an unknown date (acc.69200), c.1939 (acc.91800), and in 1964 as part of the French Collection of books and manuscripts (acc.311223): earlier provenance not recorded. Accessioned in 1940, source unknown (acc.92000). Accession details of nos.5-6, 8-25, 54, 57, 60, 64, 93, 97, 109 not recorded.

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