Red manila folder labelled 'Dumont d'Urville AN Marine, 5JJ 158 Bis'

Containers:

Box 5 (MS Acc22.020)

Component identifier:

File 82

Content Summary:

Contains copies made by Edward Duyker, in 2007, of correspondence received by Dumont d'Urville (between 1838 and 1841) from his wife Adèle, surviving son Jules, his English friend Phillip Barker Webb and Father Jean Barran. The folder also contains a copy of a tailor's bill for a new [admiral's] uniform, dated 5 March 1841 and a receipt dated 21 April 1841, for a tomb on the grave of d'Urville's brother who died in Paris on 24 January 1812. These documents were in d'Urville's Paris apartment at the time of his death and are preserved in the Archives Nationales de France in Paris

Immediate source of acquisition:

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

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