Collection ID: 0001 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Authors

• Calonne, Charles Alexandre de, 1734-1802,

Other related names

• Phillipps, Thomas, Sir, 1792-1872, former owner
• Kraus, Hans Peter, 1907-1988, former owner
• Stanitz, John D, former owner

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 5783301
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5783301

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Summary

Proposition that the contrôleur général des finances (position held by Charles Alexandre de Calonne, 1783-1787) pay for an observer from France to travel to England to learn about the conversion of iron to steel, described as a secret of great importance for France to obtain. A note at the top of the document in another hand, dated 22 Oct. 1784, records approval of the plan.

Extent

Provenance

• Separated from manuscript formerly owned by Sir Thomas Phillipps, ms. 22927 (note in pencil on verso, Kraus?).
   
• Sold as part of the residue of the Phillipps collection first to William H. Robinson Ltd., 1945, and again to H. P. Kraus, Mar. 1978; part of Kraus's ms. 836.
   
• Formerly owned by John D. Stanitz (Cleveland, Ohio), as part of Ms. 11.
   
• Acquired by Lawrence J. Schoenberg with other Stanitz manuscripts, Sept. 1997.
   
• Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2012.
   

Subjects topical

• Technology--Early works to 1800
• Iron industry and trade--France--History--18th century
• Steel industry and trade--France--History--18th century

Genres

• Manuscripts, French--18th century
• Manuscripts, European

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