Miscellany: French, 19th-20th centuries

Material formerly held in the Western Manuscripts Department's Autograph Letters Sequence:

Gâches-Sarraute, Inès (fl. 1900), physician, 1 manuscript letter (no. 1) and 1 manscript note about corsets (no. 2), each on Gâches-Sarraute's headed paper but with an unclear signature that does not appear to be hers. 1900

Séailles, Gabriel (1852-1922), author, 1 autograph letter, signed. 1909

Sebileau, Pierre (b.1860), oto-laryngologist, Professor of the Paris Faculty of Medicine, 2 autograph letters, signed, 1908-1923 (nos. 4-5); 1 visiting card with autographed and initialled incription, 1930 (no. 6). 1908-1930

Sébline, Charles (1846-1917), agriculturalist, 1 autograph letter, signed, 1890 (no. 7); cutting from Le Figaro announcing erection of a memorial plaque to Sébline following his death from "privations and violence" behind enemy lines, 1917 (no. 8). 1890-1917

Secretan, Louis (1852-1902), Swiss oto-laryngologist, 1 autograph letter, signed, plus envelope. 1892

Ségalas, Pierre Salomen (1792-1875), surgeon, 2 autograph letters, signed, 1827-1830 (nos. 10-11), including 1 to the surgeon Jean Zuléma Amussat (1796-1865) (no. 11); 1 autograph receipt, signed, 1838 (no. 12). 1827-1838

Segard, Charles (fl.1887-1905), Toulon physician, 1 autograph letter, signed, to the physician and poet Henri Cazalis (1840-1909). 1905

Segond, Paul Ferdinand (1851-1912), surgeon, 3 autograph letters, signed, 1893-1900 (nos. 14-16); 1 autograph medical certificate, signed, 1884 (no. 17); 1 autograph note, signed, with letterhead of the Paris-Orléans Railway's health service, 1889 (no. 18); visiting card with autograph inscription, n.d. (no. 19). 1884-1900

Seguin, Antoine Zacharie (fl.1851-1864), chemist, 1 letter from one Drouyn de Lhuys to a Minister arguing that Seguin should receive the cross of the Légion d'Honneur and enclosing a statement of Seguin's merits (not present), 1851 (no. 20); 3 autograph letters, signed, from Seguin to the Duke of Clermont Tonnerre, 1863-1864 (nos. 21-23). 1851-1864

Seguin, Marc (1786-1875), physicist, 3 autograph letters, signed, 1850-1851 and n.d. (nos. 24-26); autograph note on "les couleurs accidentales", n.d. (after 1854) (no. 27); "Deuxiéme Mémoire sur les couleurs accidentales", autograph, n.d. (no. 28); extract, "Sur les puissances réfractives des dissolutions (lettre de Mons. J.M. Seguin á Mons. Despretz", autograph, n.d. (no. 29); autograph note on refraction of solutions mentioning the work of the French astronomer and politician Dominique François Arago (1786-1853), n.d. (no. 30). 1850-1851

de Ségur, E.M. (fl.1843), Manuscript note in Latin on hydropathy. 1843

Seneaux, Jean (1750-1834), ophthalmologist, 2 autograph letters, signed, including 1 petition to the Emperor Napoléon (no. 33). 1804-1810

Sergent, Emile Eugéne Joseph (1867-1943), endocrinologist, 8 autograph letters and notes, signed, 1917-1925 (nos. 34-41); manuscript note of a course to be taken by Sergent on tuberculosis, sent by Dr. Pierre Pruvost (fl.1914-1927) to the Presse Médicale , 1926 (no. 42). 1917-1925

Seringe, Nicolas Charles (1776-1856), botanist, 2 autograph letters, signed, 1831-1837 (nos. 43-44); note in Seringe's hand of his biographical details, n.d. (no. 45). c.1831-1837

Serrin, V. (fl.1860-1876), physicist, 3 autograph letters, signed, 1860-1862 (nos. 46-48), comprising 2 to "Mons. Desprez, membre de l'Institut" (nos. 46-47) and 1 to Mr. Brooke, member of the jury of the 1862 London International Exposition, concerning an electric light that Serrin proposes to exhibit there (no. 48); signed account of experiments with electrric light carried out by Serrin, 1862 (no. 49). 1862

Sérullas, Georges Simon (1774-1832), chemist and apothecary, 2 autograph letters signed, 1828-1831 (nos. 50-51); signed note of experiments with bromine compounds, 1827 (no. 52); official certificate of number of patients in military hospitals and their requirements, signed by Sérullas, 1830 (no. 53). 1827-1831

Sestier, Ami Daniel Félix (fl.c.1854), 1 autograph letter, signed, to Dr. Prosper Meniére (1799-1862), concerning the health of Lady Berkeley (possibly Cecile, wife of the 7th Earl of Berkeley; this would date the letter after her marriage to the Earl in 1860). c.1854

Sézary, Albert (b.1880), dermatologist, 3 autograph letters, signed, to the Presse Médicale . 1926-1927

Sian, Dr. (fl.early 19th century?), military physician, 1 autograph letter, signed, lacking start. c. early 19th century

Sieffert, F. (fl.1905-1909), homoeopath, 4 autograph letters, signed. 1905-1909

Sieur, Célestin (1860-1955), miltary physician, 1 autograph letter, signed, to the Presse Médicale in his capacity of President of the Sociéte Amicale des éléves et des Anciens éléves du Val-de-Grace. 1925

1804-1927

63 items

Purchased from: Charavay, Paris, December 1927, March 1928, October 1928/April 1929, July 1929, February 1930, July 1930, October 1931, April 1934, at an unknown date before 1936, April 1936; Stevens, London, March 1930 an unknown vendor, Paris, April 1930; Desgranges, Paris, July 1930, October 1930, February 1931 September 1932, November 1934, July 1935, July 1936; Heck, Vienna, August 1932; Sotheby's, London, November 1933. Accession details for nos. 1-2, 8 not noted. (Accessions 55099, 56583, 57070, 63453, 63700, 63921, 63923, 64689, 64700, 65659, 65892, 65895, 67098, 67139, 67371, 67372, 67374, 67375, 67391, 67469, 69116, 69220, 69426 and 69616.)

Database description transcribed from Richard Aspin and Christopher Hilton's typescript supplement to S.A.J Moorat's Catalogue of Western Manuscripts.