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Senate House Library, University of London

Blanc, Louis: letter, 6 Dec 1867


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0096 AL9b

Held at: Senate House Library, University of London

Title: Blanc, Louis: letter, 6 Dec 1867

Date(s): 1867

Level of description: Collection

Extent: 1 sheet

Name of creator(s): Blanc | Jean Joseph Louis | 1811-1882 | political thinker and exile x Blanc | Louis

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Jean Joseph Louis Blanc was born in Spain in 1811. He was brought up and educated in Corsica. He moved to Paris shortly before the July Revolution of 1830 and became a journalist, historian and leading socialist thinker. Exiled from France, he lived in England from 1848 to 1870, where he became popular in Chartist and in labour circles and was in close contact with other left-wing emigres. He returned to France in 1870 and served in the French National Assembly during 1871-1876.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Letter from Jean Joseph Louis Blanc of 20 Grand Parade, Brighton, [Sussex] to an unknown recipient, 6 Dec 1867. Sending thanks for a letter; he and his wife 'mille amities'. Autograph, with signature.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: French

System of arrangement:

See hard copy catalogue.

Conditions governing access:

Access to this collection is unrestricted for the purpose of private study and personal research within the supervised environment and restrictions of the Library's Palaeography Room. Please contact the University Archivist for details. 24 hours notice is required for research visits.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copies may be made, subject to the condition of the original. Copying must be undertaken by the Palaeography Room staff, who will need a minimum of 24 hours to process requests.

Finding aids:

Catalogue of the manuscripts and autograph letters in the University Library at the central building of the University of London (1921). Typescript addition to the copy available in the Library's Palaeography Room.

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Accruals:

Archival history:

Provenance unknown

Immediate source of acquisition:

Bought from Tregaskis in 1912, about 2 months after Ludlow's books were sold at Hodgson's.

ALLIED MATERIALS

Existence and location of copies:

On negative microfilm - reference: MIC 242/2.

DESCRIPTION NOTES

Archivist's note: Compiled by Anya Turner.

Rules or conventions: Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions: July 2008


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Blanc | Jean Joseph Louis | 1811-1882 | political thinker and exile x Blanc | Louis

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