Pièces curieuses, pour servir à l'histoire de France : autograph manuscript notes, [undated, but probably ca. 1864].
Record ID:
157378
Accession number:
MA 692
Date:
[undated, but probably ca. 1864].
Credit:
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1910.
Description:
1 item (ca. 260 p.), bound ; 29.3 cm
Notes:
Dumas probably used this material for his La San-Felice [Emma Lyonna] (Michel Lévy, 1864). This was later translated by Henry Llewellyn Williams as The Lovely Lady Hamilton (London: Street and Smith, 1903) and by Robert Singleton Garnett as The Neapolitan Lovers (London: Stanley Paul, 1916).
Summary:
Manuscript notes discussing the intrigues of Horatio Nelson and Lady Emma Hamilton at the Court of Ferdinand IV of Naples.
Housed in:
Blue cloth drop-spine box (32.5 cm)
Binding:
Green leather gilt with spine label: "Dumas Pere / Documents / Sur / L'histoire / De / Naples / Original / Manuscript."
Provenance:
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co., 1910.
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