Eon de Beaumont, Charles Geneviève Louis Auguste André Timothée d', 1728-1810
Call Number:
LWL Mss File 145
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
text
Abstract:
Holograph letter, signed, from "La Chlve' d'Eon" to William Seward thanking him for the delivery of a book and pamphlet
Description:
The Chevalier d'Eon de Beaumont (1728-1810) was a French diplomat who lived openly as a woman while in exile in England., In English., and Formerly laid in: La Fortelle, M. Vie militaire, politique et privée de demoiselle Charles-Geneviéve-Louise-Auguste-Andrée-Thimothée Eon ou d'Eon de Beaumont (Lewis Walpole Library 53 Eo5 F67).
Subject (Name):
Eon de Beaumont, Charles Geneviève Louis Auguste André Timothée d', 1728-1810.
The introductory advertisement signed: H. W., i.e. Horace Walpole., Lewis Walpole Library 49 2509: No. 1 in volume labeled: Antiqui[ties]., Bound with nos.1-2 of Miscellaneous antiquities., Calf, with Horace Walpole's arms stamped on covers. Not in Manuscript Catalogue of 1763. Armorial bookplates of E.V. Utterson and of William Frederick, 9th Earl of Waldegrave. Ms. notes by Utterson and by Lady Elizabeth Waldegrave., and Horace Walpole's extra-illustrated copy, with notes and initials.
Publisher:
Strawberry Hill Press
Subject (Name):
Fitz-Patrick, Barnaby, Baron of Upper Ossory, approximately 1535-1581.
Silas Reed (1807-1886), born in Ohio, graduated from the Medical College of Ohio, lived in Cincinnati for several years, and in 1838 moved to Rock Island, Illinois. He was surveyor general of Illinois and Missouri, 1841-45, and surveyor general of Wyoming