Autograph manuscript translation of documents relating to the Imperial Public Library of Saint Petersburg, Russia. Includes material concerning the establishment, reform, and finances of the library; and rules for the administration of the library. Ac...
Description:
Marie-Félicité Brosset (1802-1880) was a French scholar of Armenian and Georgian languages and culture. He traveled to Saint Petersburg, Russia in 1837 and became a librarian at the Imperial Public Library, now the National Library of Russia, in 1842....
Subject (Geographic):
Russia (Federation), Saint Petersburg., and Saint Petersburg (Russia)
Subject (Name):
Brosset, Marie-Félicité, 1802-1880. and Imperatorskai︠a︡ publichnai︠a︡ biblīoteka (Saint Petersburg, Russia)
Subject (Topic):
Administration, Librarians, Libraries, Library administration, and Public libraries
Autograph letters, signed, official documents, notes and a case file documenting various aspects of French rule in the West Indies, almost entirely dating from the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic periods. Manuscripts include a lengthy letter by "M...
Description:
In French.
Subject (Geographic):
Haiti., France, America., Haiti, Martinique., and West Indies, French.
Subject (Name):
Delahun, C., Noailles, Louis Marie, vicomte de, 1756-1804., and Rochambeau, Donatien Marie Joseph de Vimeur, vicomte de, 1750-1813.
Subject (Topic):
Law, Slavery, Colonies, Administration, History, and Politics and government
Letters, manuscripts and printed documents relating to the life and career of Andrew Ross. Three letters to him dating from 1808 are connected to his appointment as governor of Essequebo and Demerara. An 1808 letter from the Governor of Puerto Rico, T...
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Andrew Ross (1773-1812), Army officer who suppressed the 1802 mutiny of several regiments at Gibraltar; probably appointed Governor of Essequibo and Demerara in 1807 or 1808. He retired to Madeira for his health in 1809, but returned to service in the...
Subject (Geographic):
Caribbean Area., Spain., Caribbean Area, Cartagena (Spain), Demerara, Essequibo, Guyana, Great Britain, America., Spain, and Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Copons y Navia, Francisco de, 1770-1842., Inciarte, José Felipe., Montes, Toribio de., and Ross, Andrew, 1773-1812.
Subject (Topic):
Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815, Campaigns, Peninsular War, 1807-1814, History, Colonies, Administration, and Foreign relations
