Manuscripts
Francois Demovy? letter to "Monsieur,"
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Jean Pierre Vibert letter to "Monsieur Lauret,"
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The letter is written by Jean Pierre Vibert to a "Monsieur Lauret" regarding an order of roses purchased by Lauret. In addition to a detailed invoice of thirteen roses, Vibert exchanges pleasantries with Lauret about visits that his customer has made to Chenevieres, ending with a discussion of the imminent closure of his business and the deep discounts that he can therefore offer on his 1833 catalogue of rose specimens. Letter is in French; written in Paris. With typed English translation.
mssHM 80796
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René Desgenettes letter to Monsieur le préfet
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Letter written by René Desgenettes to "Monsieur le préfet." The letter is in French and was written in Paris.
mssHM 83068
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A ballad upon a wedding [poem]
Manuscripts
This is a 19th century transcription in an unknown hand; with a French translation in another hand
mssHM 63173
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Ernest Coquelin letter to "Monsieur,"
Manuscripts
This letter was written in Paris by Coquelin. In it, he announces his next performance. The letter is in French but has an English translation. The recipient is unknown.
mssHM 78373
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Johann Friedrich Blumenbach: handwriting specimen, letter and transcript
Manuscripts
Handwriting specimen of Johann Friedrich Blumenbach, plus accompanying letter and transcript prepared by Blumenbach's son. The five-line handwriting specimen is dated 1834, December 28, and is found on a folded sheet with two pages of writing; two lines of this text are in French and three lines, including Blumenbach's signature, are in German. The specimen is annotated and translated into English by Blumenbach's son and by an unidentified person. The second page of the sheet contains a letter from Blumenbach's son to an unidentified recipient addressed as My dear Sir and dated 1836, April 27, describing the handwriting specimen; this letter is in English. Also contains a one-page undated typed transcription and partial translation of Blumenbach's lines and of the start of the son's letter, as well as biographical information about Blumenbach, prepared by an unidentified person; this page contains annotations in pencil relating to the material's archival location.
mssHM 83022-83023
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Jean Frédéric Ostervald letters
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Five letters written by Jean Frédéric Ostervald and one manuscript by an unidentified writer. Two of the five letters are addressed to Monsieur [Jean] Clogenson (1785-1876), a librarian in Alençon, and one letter, dated 1825, is addressed to Professor [Marc-August] Pictet (1752-1825), an influential editor and researcher who was a professor of natural philosophy at the Academy of Geneva. The recipients of the other two letters are unidentified. The letters are in French; one was written from Paris, France, while the origin of the others is unspecified. The four-page manuscript, also written in French, possibly by Ostervald, describes routes and travel times between numerous destinations, mostly within Switzerland.
mssHM 82714-82719