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LETTERS AND AUTOGRAPHS. - Set of around 150 letters, manuscripts and miscellaneous documents: masonic correspondence, convocations, manuscripts from various obediences, etc. 18th-20th centuries. Occasional heavy foxing on some documents. SUPERB COLLECTION FROM FREEMASONS, INCLUDING IMPORTANT HISTORICAL FIGURES: Pierre-Antoine BERRYER, Louis BONAPARTE (one time Deputy Grand Master of the Grand Orient), Ferdinand de BRUNSWICK (1784), Giuseppe Balsamo, known as Count Alessandro di CAGLIOSTRO (signed letter and letter addressed to him), Jean-Jacques Régis CAMBACERES (Archchancellor of the Empire, Deputy Grand Master of the Grand Orient, 2 autograph manuscripts and one signed document), Élie DECAZES (33rd, Grand Master of the Supreme Council of France), Philippe-Frédéric de DIETRICH (future mayor of Strasbourg, at whose home La Marseillaise would be composed), André Marie Jean-Jacques DUPIN AINE, Jean-Pierre Claris de FLORIAN (member of Les Neuf Soeurs Lodge in Paris), Landgrave Charles-Emmanuel de HESSE, Nicolas-Louis-François FRANÇOIS DE NEUFCHATEAU (member of Les Neuf Soeurs Lodge in Paris), Marshal Étienne MACDONALD, Pierre-François PALLOY (Bastille demolition contractor), Antoine-Guillaume RAMPON (General of the Empire, 33rd, venerable of the Saint-Napoléon Lodge in Paris), Claude-Antoine THORY, Oswald WIRTH, etc.
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LETTERS AND AUTOGRAPHS. - Set of around 150 letters, manuscripts and miscellaneous documents: masonic correspondence, convocations, manuscripts from various obediences, etc. 18th-20th centuries. Occasional heavy foxing on some documents. SUPERB COLLECTION FROM FREEMASONS, INCLUDING IMPORTANT HISTORICAL FIGURES: Pierre-Antoine BERRYER, Louis BONAPARTE (one time Deputy Grand Master of the Grand Orient), Ferdinand de BRUNSWICK (1784), Giuseppe Balsamo, known as Count Alessandro di CAGLIOSTRO (signed letter and letter addressed to him), Jean-Jacques Régis CAMBACERES (Archchancellor of the Empire, Deputy Grand Master of the Grand Orient, 2 autograph manuscripts and one signed document), Élie DECAZES (33rd, Grand Master of the Supreme Council of France), Philippe-Frédéric de DIETRICH (future mayor of Strasbourg, at whose home La Marseillaise would be composed), André Marie Jean-Jacques DUPIN AINE, Jean-Pierre Claris de FLORIAN (member of Les Neuf Soeurs Lodge in Paris), Landgrave Charles-Emmanuel de HESSE, Nicolas-Louis-François FRANÇOIS DE NEUFCHATEAU (member of Les Neuf Soeurs Lodge in Paris), Marshal Étienne MACDONALD, Pierre-François PALLOY (Bastille demolition contractor), Antoine-Guillaume RAMPON (General of the Empire, 33rd, venerable of the Saint-Napoléon Lodge in Paris), Claude-Antoine THORY, Oswald WIRTH, etc.
