Condorcet, Jean-Antoine-Nicolas de Caritat, marquis de, 1743-1794
Published / Created:
1787-91, n.d.
Call Number:
GEN MSS MISC
Container / Volume:
GROUP 87, folder F-2
Image Count:
16
Description:
Two ALS, as Secretary to the Academy of Sciences, and one LS, as Treasury Commissioner.
Latter is signed by the other Treasury Commissioners.
With printed broadside containing engraved portrait of Condorcet and scene showing his death in prison; three ALS from his widow, Marie-Louise-Sophie de Grouchy, marquise de Condorcet, 1816, n.d.; draft letter to de Grouchy from the Finance Ministry, 1815 Apr 28; and unsigned note, dated 1785, possibly to Condorcet.
In French.
Two ALS: Chelsea, to Dr. Franz Huffer, 1871 Feb 23, with envelope; Penkill Castle, Ayrshire, to Algernon Charles Swinburne, 1889 Oct 5.
Accompanied by notes of a former owner and a clipping of a photograph of Scott, John Ruskin, and Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Country Life, 1952 Feb 1
Thirty-nine ALS to Elliot Stock, Feb, 1882-Aug, 1883; and one ALS to Archibald Constable, Mar 6, 1882.
The letters mainly concern publication of his A Poet's Harvest Home ([London] and Girvan, Ayrshire, 1882-1883).
Four ALS and one APcS touching on modern philosophy, literature, and art, and mentioning Jean Cassou, André Malraux, Jean Dubuffet, Martin Heidegger, Stephané Mallarmé, Paul Eluard, and others. Includes five envelopes.
In French.