Details

Subjects:

Technology -- Early works to 1800.
Technology.
Platinum -- History.
Platinum.
History.
France -- History -- Louis XV, 1715-1774.
France.

Form/Genre:

Manuscripts, French.
Manuscripts, European.

Language:

In French.

Summary:

Letter written in Metz, dated 28 April 1768, to the inspector of manufacture of arms in Maubeuge, concerning the production of platinum (platine); signed Boileau. Originally folded for mailing, with address and remnants of sealing wax on former exterior.

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:

798129836

Web link:

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