Manila folder labelled 'César Desgraz'

Containers:

Box 1 (MS Acc22.020)

Component identifier:

File 11

Content Summary:

The file contains research correspondence and biographical sources relating to César Louis François Desgraz (1816–1865), Dumont d'Urville's private secretary during his final circumnavigation 1837–1840. Desgraz was born in Smyrna (modern Izmir), in Turkey, the son of a Swiss merchant and the daughter of a merchant from Marseille. In 1855, he married in Wimbeldon, England, according to Anglican rites. The novelist Charles Kingsley (1819–1875), author of the Water Babies, and Francis Carnac Brown, advocate of reform in India, were his two witnesses. The file contains photocopies fromDesgraz personal journal aboard the Astrolabe held by the Royal Geographical Society, London, together with extracts from his Légion d'honneur dossier, a copy of the title page of his book Iles Marquises ou Nouka-Hiva (Paris, 1843) and extracts from his father's book Paroles d'un négociant, Paris, 1834

Immediate source of acquisition:

This collection was acquired from Edward Duyker in multiple instalments from 1996 to 2022.

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