Details

Subjects:

Technology.
Coinage -- France.
Coinage.
France -- History -- Consulate and First Empire, 1799-1815.
France.
History.

Form/Genre:

Manuscripts, French.
Manuscripts, European.

Language:

In French.

Summary:

Letter written in Paris, dated 27 May 1809 (corrected in ink by another hand to 17 May?), concerning the casting and refinement (la fonte et l'affinage) of metal for currency; by the same writer (signature illegible) as LJS 180, Item 8.

Local notes:

Lawrence J. Schoenberg & Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative.

Penn Provenance:

Formerly owned by Hans Peter Kraus, as part of ms. 836.
Formerly owned by John D. Stanitz (Cleveland, Ohio), as part of Ms. 11.
Acquired by Lawrence J. Schoenberg with other Stanitz manuscripts, Sept. 1997.
Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2012.
Gift of Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, 2016.

Cited as:

UPenn LJS 180.

Contributor:

Kraus, Hans Peter, 1907-1988, former owner.
Stanitz, John D., former owner.
Schoenberg, Lawrence J., former owner.
Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

OCLC:

798129830

Web link:

The Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative Fund Home Page