Manila folder labelled 'Dumont d'Urville Letters'
- Containers:
- Box 3 (MS Acc22.020)
- Component identifier:
- File 55
- Content Summary:
- Contains photocopies and transcriptions of published and unpublished letters written by Dumont d'Uville, his wife and his son: includes Service historique de la Défense, Département de la Marine (SHDDM, Toulon) Papiers de Louis Charles Lefébure de Cerisy: 23S 693–709, Lettres de Jules Dumont d'Urville (1821–22), 23S 710–712, Lettres d'Adèle Dumont d'Urville (1821); Email from Corine Babeix, 9 December 2008, with attached scanned copy of Adèle Dumont d'Urville's letter to Louis Charles Lefébure de Cerisy, Paris, 18 Octobre 1821. [This was in reply to a request for a missing copy of first page of the letter.] Marie, A. (ed.), 'Lettres de Dumont d'Urville (1819–1825)', Revue rétrospective: Recueil de pièces intéressantes et de citations curieuses, 10e semestre, janvier-juin 1889, pp. 74–90; 'Quatre lettres [1822–5] inédités de Dumont d'Urville' extract (pages 14-17) from Chevalier, A., 'Au souvenir de l'Amiral J. Dumont d'Urville: Prospecteur de la flore de l'Océanie et de l'Hémisphère austral de 1822 à 1840', Revue internationale de Botanique appliquée d'Agriculture tropicale, 31e année, janvier–février 1951; Sale catalogue entry, no date, for 18 letters written by Adélie Dumont d'Urville 1837–40, to François de Montrol, offered for Sale by Libraire Chamonal, Paris EUR 7500.00; photocopies of two letters from Jules-Sébastien-César Dumont d'Urville to his English friend the botanist Phillip Barker Webb, one dated 5 septembre 1834 and bears pencil catalogue annotation 116.1.1; the other is dated 18 mai 1837 and bears the catalogue number 116.2.1; Transcription of nine letters 1838–40 to Dumont d'Urville from his wife and son, from Archives nationales, Marine 5JJ 158 bis, Dumont d'Urville papiers, 1838–1841 Photocopy of a letter from Dumont d'Urville to a M. Chauvin, circa 1832, with a description from a sale catalogue Twenty-Four Manuscripts: A Collection of Original Documents Holograph Letters 1755–1872, Hordern House Catalogue, Sydney, 2010. The letter was priced AUD$5500
- Immediate source of acquisition:
- This collection was acquired from Edward Duyker in multiple instalments from 1996 to 2022.
- Subjects:
- Exploration
History
Access and use
- Parent Restrictions:
- Access conditions may apply to this collection, please refer to the collection's catalogue record for further information (http://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn1391827).
- Parent Terms of Access:
- Copying and publishing of unpublished manuscript material is subject to copyright restrictions. For such material, written permission to publish must be obtained from the copyright holder(s). Copying of unpublished material for research purposes is permissible 50 years after the death of the creator of the material.
- Location of this collection:
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Parkes PlaceCanberra ACT 2600, Australia
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