Manila folder labelled 'Service Dossier Dumont d'Urville'

Containers:

Box 3 (MS Acc22.020)

Component identifier:

File 45

Content Summary:

Dumont d'Urville's 'dossier personnel' is held by the Service historique de la Défense, Département de la Marine (SHDDM) at the Château de Vincennes : CC7 Alpha 772; Edward Duyker consulted this dossier in person in 2007, however, prior to research in France and using 35 mm negatives supplied by Jeremy Spencer [aka J. R. H. Spencer], who photographed the originals on 28 October 1977 (see the photocopy of the list), he made prints in an improvised dark room. Later, he scanned the same negatives digitally. The folder contains prints from film and digital scans, many quite faint. It also contains French transcriptions of ten of the documents in the hand of Edward Duyker's mother Marie-Thérèse Maryse Duyker (born 1932)

Immediate source of acquisition:

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

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History

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