• Title
  Item 16: Autograph letter signed, from Louis de Freycinet to his brother Henri de Freycinet, sent from Paris, 9 April 1824
• Call number
  SAFE/MLMSS 10275/Box 2/Folder 1/Item 16
  
• Level of description
  item
• Date
  
  9 April 1824
• Type of material
  Textual Records
• Reference code
  9660892
• Physical Description
  1 item of textual material - manuscript
  
• Scope and Content
  Autograph letter signed, from Louis de Freycinet to his brother Henri de Freycinet [at Île Bourbon], sent from Paris, 9 April 1824 (4 pages on a single folded sheet, with Laage archive stamp, Dossier 173 C-6), concerning the news just to hand of the unexpected death of their younger brother Charles and also the death of the six-year-old eldest child (a son) of their youngest brother Casimir. There is news of other deaths among their relatives: “On dirait que la mort plane sur notre famille” [“It looks like death is hovering over our family”]. Louis also mentions a seven-year-old boy that Charles had with a Negress.
• Language
  French
• Access Conditions
  
  Access via appointment
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright:
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• Creator/Author/Artist
  Freycinet, Louis Claude Desaulses de, 1779-1842
  
• Subject
  Freycinet, André Joseph Charles Desaulses de, 1783-1823
  Freycinet, Casimir
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE20519615

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