Collection 1: Freycinet family archive, with additional related material, 1803-1880

SAFE/MLMSS 10275

sub-fonds

1803-1880

Textual Records, Manuscript Cartographic Materials

9631395

1.65 metres of textual material (7 boxes)

The material came chiefly from a private collector who acquired much of the surviving archive of the Freycinet family in the 1970s and 1980s. Other pieces were acquired as they became available over subsequent decades through the antiquarian market, sometimes through Hordern House. Most of the manuscripts have red stamps of the 'Archives de Laage', a Freycinet family property at L’Age-Bertrand near Bordeaux in the Charente until the 1980s.

An archive of manuscript letters and documents mainly relating to brothers Louis and Henri de Freycinet and their immediate families and some professional colleagues. Also includes three published works presented to members of the Freycinet family.

LOUIS CLAUDE (LOUIS) DE FREYCINET
Series 01: Louis de Freycinet correspondence
Series 02: Louis de Freycinet papers, mainly concerning the Uranie voyage
Series 03: Papers concerning work on the Mariana Islands Dictionary by Louis de Freycinet, Athanase Gros and Lodoïx de Freycinet
Series 04: Papers concerning the biography of Louis de Freycinet

LOUIS HENRI (HENRI) DE FREYCINET
Series 05: Henri de Freycinet correspondence
Series 06: Papers concerning Henri de Freycinet’s command of the Phaéton
Series 07: Papers concerning Henri de Freycinet’s command of the Élisa and other naval matters
Series 08: Papers concerning Henri de Freycinet’s governorship of Île Bourbon [Réunion]
Series 09: Papers concerning Henri de Freycinet’s governorship of French Guiana
Series 10: Papers concerning Henri de Freycinet’s governorship of Martinique

CLÉMENTINE DE FREYCINET (NÉE BÉRAR)
Series 11: Letters received by Clémentine de Freycinet

ROSE DE FREYCINET
Series 12: Letters sent by Rose de Freycinet to Captain Bérar, Monsieur Millot and Lodoïx de Freycinet

HENRIETTE LAMOTHE (NÉE DE FREYCINET)
Series 13: Letters received by Henriette Lamothe

HENRI DE FREYCINET (JUNIOR)
Series 14: Henri de Freycinet (junior) papers

BAUDIN VETERANS
Series 15: Letters from Jean-Baptiste Leschenault de la Tour to his patron Princess de Salm-Dyck
Series 16: Jean Baptiste Bory de Saint-Vincent correspondence
Series 17: Letters from Charles Baudin to Joseph Ransonnet

PRINTED MATERIAL
Series 18: Published works presented to Henri de Freycinet and Henriette de Freycinet

MAP (from Series 06 of this collection)
Catalogued separately at Call No.: SAFE/M Ser 4 000/1 MLMSS 10275/Map 1

French, English

Out of copyright:
Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales