Edmond de Boissieu manuscript written on board La Favorite on the Laplace voyage, detailing Sydney s...
Edmond de Boissieu manuscript written on board La Favorite on the Laplace voyage, detailing Sydney s...
Edmond de Boissieu manuscript written on board La Favorite on the Laplace voyage, detailing Sydney society, ca. 1831
About this item
Full title
Author / Creator
Date
ca. 1831
Call Numbers
MLMSS 9913
Record Identifier
Reference Code
Language
French
Formats
Physical Description
Contents
0.05 metres of textual material (1 box) - manuscript in ink on 4 folded sheets (16 pages including 3.5 blank pages)
Other Descriptions
Level of description
Fonds
Access and use
Copying Conditions
Out of copyright
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Subjects
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Scope and Contents
Contents
Edmond de Boissieu documented his stay in Sydney in detail and this previously unrecorded manuscript describes many domestic details of households such as Governor Darling’s, Chief Justice Forbes’ and, particularly, the Blaxland family’s. Boissieu also met (and passed judgement on) Alexander Macleay (afflicted with ‘great ugliness’), Francis Forbes...
Alternative Titles
Full title
Edmond de Boissieu manuscript written on board La Favorite on the Laplace voyage, detailing Sydney society, ca. 1831
Authors, Artists and Contributors
Author / Creator
Notes
General note
Written on coarse wove paper of French manufacture, each sheet watermarked 1828 and with the maker's name of Labranche & Sarroul.
Attributions / Conjectures
Unsigned, but in the known hand of Boissieu. Internal evidence in the text itself confirms the attribution.
Object History
Part of Boissieu's private papers held by the Boissieu family, sold through a French dealer on behalf of a direct descendant.
Contextual Information
Source
Purchased from James Cummins Bookseller, August 2016
Administrative / Biographical history
Edmond de Boissieu was a senior officer on the French expedition led by Cyrille Laplace on La Favorite between 1829 and 1832. It was intended by the French to capitalise on the science and mapping done by the Bougainville voyage (which called at Sydney in 1825) and also as a political exercise to demonstrate a French presence in the Pacific.
Identifiers
Primary Identifiers
Call Numbers
MLMSS 9913
Record Identifier
Yj7oJEx9
Permalink
https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/Yj7oJEx9
Other Identifiers
Reference code
1006326
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