BIB_ID
288167
Accession number
MA 771.1-102
Display Date
1814-1826 and undated.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan,, 1911.
Description
1 v. (102 items) ; 29.9 cm
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from Imbert in 1911.
Summary
Collection consists of 98 autograph letters, manuscript copies of letters, and manuscript and autograph drafts of letters related to Jerome Bonaparte, and one manuscript account of a voyage of his consort, Queen Catherine (MA 771.16). Letters are composed by or written in the name of Jerome Bonaparte, his consort Catherine de Wurtemberg, Louis Bohle (secretary to Jerome Bonaparte), Iōannēs Antōniou Kapodistrias (Greek politician), Francis I, Emperor of Austria, Baron de Gayl (aide-de-camp to Jerome Bonaparte), Ulrich Lebrecht Mandelsloh (Wurtemberg minister), Clemens Wenzel Lothar Metternich (Austrian politician), Karl Robert Nesselrode (Russian diplomat), Alphonse Porcia (Director of Police at Trieste), Baron de Spiegelfeld (President of Police at Trieste), Dmitri Pavlovitch Tatischeff, Heinrich Karl Friedrich Levin Wintzingerode (Württemberg statesman and foreign minister), as well as the banking houses Arcieri & Baldini and Necker, Collioud & Cie. Letters and documents are cataloged individually in 99 records (MA 771-1-99); see related records for full description. With three engraved portraits of Jerome Bonaparte.
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