Series 13: Letters received by Henriette Lamothe

SAFE/MLMSS 10275/Box 3/Folder 3

series

1838-1874

9650189

1 folder of textual material

Louise 'Henriette' Desaulses de Freycinet (1810-1886) was born on 13 December 1810 in Paris, the first child of Louis Henri Desaulses de Freycinet (1777-1840). The name of her mother is unknown. She had two half-brothers, Louis René Desaulses de Freycinet (1820-1877) and Charles Henri Auguste Desaulses de Freycinet (1823-1881). On 22 November 1830, she married Olivier Félix Lamothe in Paris.

A series of 15 letters, most with Laage archive stamps. Correspondents comprise Louis René (Lodoïx) de Freycinet, Blanche de Freycinet and Charles Henri de Freycinet.

ITEM 01
Autograph letter signed, from Louis René (Lodoïx) de Freycinet to his half-sister Henriette Lamothe at Brest, written aboard the Créole while on passage to Cadiz, 9 September 1838

ITEM 02
Incomplete autograph letter, from Louis René (Lodoïx) de Freycinet to his half-sister Henriette Lamothe at Brest, written while on passage from Cadiz to the Canary Islands, 15 September 1838

ITEM 03
Autograph letter signed, from Louis René (Lodoïx) de Freycinet to his half-sister Henriette Lamothe in Paris, sent from Isla de Sacrificios, off Veracruz, Gulf of Mexico, 9 November 1838

ITEM 04
Autograph letter signed, from Blanche de Freycinet to her cousin Henriette Lamothe (Madame Felix Lamothe) in Paris, sent from Freycinet, 22 August 1842

ITEM 05
Autograph letter signed, from Blanche de Freycinet to her cousin Henriette Lamothe in Paris, sent from Auxerre, 16 November 1842

ITEM 06
Autograph letter signed, from Blanche de Freycinet to her cousin Henriette Lamothe in Paris, sent from Montauban, 3 July 1848

ITEM 07
Autograph letter signed, from Charles Henri de Freycinet to his half-sister Henriette Lamothe, sent from Noumea, 22 April 1873

ITEM 08
Autograph letter signed, from Charles Henri de Freycinet to his half-sister Henriette Lamothe, sent from Noumea Harbour, 25 May 1873

ITEM 09
Autograph letter signed, from Charles Henri de Freycinet to his half-sister Henriette Lamothe, sent from Sydney Harbour, 11 July 1873

ITEM 10
Autograph letter signed, from Charles Henri de Freycinet to his half-sister Henriette Lamothe, sent from Sydney Harbour, 1 September 1873

ITEM 11
Autograph letter signed, from Charles Henri de Freycinet to his half-sister Henriette Lamothe, sent from Valparaiso Harbour, 28 November 1873

ITEM 12
Autograph letter signed, from Charles Henri de Freycinet to his half-sister Henriette Lamothe, sent from Callao Harbour, 6 February

ITEM 13
Autograph letter signed, from Charles Henri de Freycinet to his half-sister Henriette Lamothe, written aboard the Atalante, 3 March 1874

ITEM 14
Autograph letter signed, from Charles Henri de Freycinet to his half-sister Henriette Lamothe, sent from San Francisco, 8 May 1874

ITEM 15
Autograph letter signed, from Charles Henri de Freycinet to his half-sister Henriette Lamothe, written while at sea, 24 June 1874

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