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

Title

Other related names

• Kraus, Hans Peter, 1907-1988, former owner
• Stanitz, John D, former owner

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 5783304
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5783304

Publisher

Language

Summary

Request, signed Hoffman, Paris, 27 February 1789; to an unnamed government official, for a subsidy to develop cultivation of the madder plant in France for use in textile dye. A note at the top in another hand suggests that Hoffman at least obtained an audience in response.

Extent

Provenance

• Formerly owned by Hans Peter Kraus, as part of 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
• Dyes and dyeing--Early works to 1800
• Madder--Early works to 1800

Genres

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

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