Manuscripts

Jean-André Deluc drafts of letters to Joseph L. LeFrançois de Lalande

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Description: Seven autograph drafts of letters, in French, from Deluc to Joseph J. LeFrançois de Lalande, plus an undated autograph document containing instructions for changes and corrections to some engraved plates illustrating a work on the barometer, from Geneva. The drafts of letters are heavily revised. The first two letters concern the 1761 transit of Venus across the face of the sun.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1761, June 8-1765, January 18.
Call number: mssHM 82905
Creator: Luc, J. A. de (1727-1817)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Purchased from Jeremy Norman & Co., Inc., May 2016.

Joseph Jérôme Le Français de Lalande letters to Jean André Deluc

Manuscripts

Four letters signed with autograph additions, in French, to Jean André Deluc, from Paris. The letters discuss several astronomical issues, and Lalande mentions William Herschel's works and refers to Deluc's controversey with H.B. Saussure.

mssHM 83117-83120

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J. C. L. Sismondi letter

Manuscripts

This letter was written by J.-C.-L. Sismondi in French from Geneva. It was written to his friend the Marquise de Bossi.

mssHM 81231

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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

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Marsilio Landriani letters to Jean-André de Luc

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Nine letters written by Marsilio Landriani to Swiss meteorologist, physicist, and geologist Jean-André de Luc (1727-1817), addressed as "Monsieur" and "Mon cher Monsieur" in their salutations. The letters, which are in French, relate to Landrianis work as a physicist, and address topics including electricity, meteorology, hygrometry, and various experiments. Those dated 1783, 1786, and 1787 were written from Milan, Italy, and those dated 1788 were written from London, England (two letters), or from an unspecified location (one letter). Six letters bear red wax seals, and two show traces of seals that were removed. Three letters include the name Landriani or M. Landriani handwritten in red ink at the top.

mssHM 82696-82704

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Jean-François Clouet letters

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These letters were written from Daigny, France (they are in French; there are partial English transcripts for two of the items). Two of the letters are addressed to "Citizen Robinet" and "Citizen Fery." In the letters, Clouet is discussing foundries, working with metals, needing workmen, and wrought iron.

mssHM 79073-79077

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Carlos Francisco de Croix letter to Domingo Elizondo

Manuscripts

This letter consists of drafts of two letters to Domingo Elizondo, enclosing secret sealed orders related to the explusion of the Jesuits from lower California and Sonora, Mexico. In Spanish.

mssHM 22487

Jean-André Deluc drafts of letters to Joseph L. LeFrançois de Lalande

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