Guide to the Prince Achille Murat Papers, 1809-1845
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Guide to the Prince Achille Murat Papers, 1809-1845
Collection number: M0079
Department of Special Collections
Stanford University Libraries
Stanford, California
Contact Information
- Department of Special Collections
- Green Library
- Stanford University Libraries
- Stanford, CA 94305-6004
- Phone: (650) 725-1022
- Email: speccoll@sulmail.stanford.edu
- URL: http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/spc/
- Processed by:
- Mrs. Willis E.Lamb, Jr.
- Date Completed:
- ca. 1955
- Reprocessed by:
- Steven Mandeville-Gamble
- Date Completed:
- 2003 Mar. 4
- Encoded by:
- C. Del Anderson
- Supplementary Encoding by:
- Steven Mandeville-Gamble
© 2003, 1998 The Board of Trustees of Stanford University. All rights reserved.
Descriptive Summary
Title: Prince Achille Murat Papers,
Date (inclusive): 1809-1845
Collection number: Special Collections M0079
Creator:
Murat, Achille, prince, 1801-1847
Extent:
3.5 linear ft.
Repository:
Stanford University. Libraries. Dept. of Special Collections.
Language:
English.
Administrative Information
Access Restrictions
None.
Publication Rights
Property rights reside with the repository. Literary rights
reside with the creators of the documents or their heirs. To
obtain permission to publish or reproduce, please contact the
Public Services Librarian of the Dept. of Special Collections.
Provenance
Gift of Homer Spence, 1947-1951.
Preferred Citation:
[Identification of item] Prince Achille Murat Papers, M0079, Dept. of Special
Collections, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, Calif.
Biography
Achille Murat, son of Caroline Bonaparte and Joachim Murat (King of
Naples, 1808-1815), grew up in Paris and Naples as heir presumptive to his father's titles. After the fall of Napoleon he
lived in exile with his mother, brother Lucien, and sisters Letizia and Louise at Frohscorf Castle in Austria. Upon reaching
his majority he petitioned for a passport to
America. In 1823, he arrived in New York where news of a Spanish liberal revolution reached him. He decided to violate his
promise never to return to Europe and sailed for Gibraltar, but he arrived too late. Upon his return to New York, he took
out American citizenship papers and married a great-grand-niece of Washington, Catherine Willis Gray. He lived in Florida
and for a time in New Orleans engaged in farming and various highly speculative business ventures. In the revolutionary 1830s
he returned to Europe to become head of the Foreign Legion of the new Kingdom of Belgium, hoping for a "call from Italy" which
never came. Back in America he published a book on the United States which failed to catch the public fancy. Murat was a
staunch supporter of slavery though he professed to fight for the liberation of man. He was engaged in continuous litigation
with the French Government for the Murat properties seized in 1815. He also tried to compel his uncle Joseph (Napoleon's
elder brother) to give an accounting of funds the Emperor had given him to us "as I would use it."
Scope and Content
Primarily letters from various members of the Murat and
Bonaparte families to Murat. Includes correspondence regarding
Murat's attempt to organize a Belgium Foreign Legion in the 1830's;
manuscripts of his writings on politics, slavery, economics, and
literature; and family legal papers. The letters are in French, English, and Italian. Napoleon is not represented.
Access terms
Lafayette, Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de,1757-1834.
Murat, Achille, prince, 1801-1847.
Bonaparte family.
Murat family.
France.
Italy
Container List
Series 1. Family Correspondence
Box 1, Folder 1
Laetitia Ramolino Bonaparte (grandmother)
Box 1, Folder 2
Cardinal Fesch (brother of Laetitia and great uncle of Achille)
Box 1, Folder 3
Joseph Bonaparte (uncle of Achille)
Box 1, Folder 4
Joseph Bonapart to Marechal Clauzel?
Box 1, Folder 6
Empress Marie Lousie (aunt of Achille)
Box 1, Folder 7
Lucien Bonaparte (uncle to Achille)
Box 1, Folder 8
Alexandrine (wife of Lucien)
Box 1, Folder 9
Louis Bonaparte (brother of Napoleon)
Box 1, Folder 10
Hortense (daughter of Napoleon's first wife, Josephine Beauharnais)
Box 1, Folder 11
Elisa (sister of Napoleon)
Box 1, Folder 12
Felix Baciochi (husband of Elisa)
Box 1, Folder 13
Pauline Borghese (sister of Napoleon)
Box 1, Folder 14
Camille (husband of Pauline)
Box 1, Folder 15
Jerome Bonaparte (brother of Napoleon)
Box 1, Folder 16
Joachim Murat (father of Achille)
Box 1, Folder 17
Caroline (wife of Joachim and mother of Achille)1809 - 1810
Box 1, Folder 18
Caroline (wife of Joachim and mother of Achille)1811 - ca. 1814
Box 1, Folder 19
Caroline (wife of Joachim and mother of Achille)ca. 1815 & n.d.
Box 1, Folder 20
Caroline (wife of Joachim and mother of Achille), nos. 1 - 28, 1816 - 1824
Box 1, Folder 21
Caroline (wife of Joachim and mother of Achille), nos. 1 - 28, 1825 - 1829
Box 2, Folder 7
Lucien (younger brother of Achille)
Box 2, Folder 8
Christine Bonaparte (daughter of Lucien)
Box 2, Folder 9
Zenaide & Mathilde (daughters of Joseph)
Box 2, Folder 10
Letitia and Marie (daughters of Lucien)
Box 2, Folder 12
Antoniette de Hohenzollern
Box 2, Folder 13
Copies of letters by Achille Murat.
Box 2, Folder 34
Letitia (sister of Achille)
Box 2, Folder 56
Louise M. Rasponi (sister of Achille)
Box 4, Folder 1
Caroline Murat to Achille (oversize)
Series 2. General Correspondence
Box 2, Folder 14
de Bandus (Achilles tutor)
Box 2, Folder 18
Letters D. including D'Hautemesnil.
Box 3, Folder 15
Unidentified letters [1 of 2]
Box 3, Folder 16
Unidentified letters [2 of 2]
Box 4, Folder 2
Family papers (properties, wills, etc.).
Box 4, Folder 3
Murat papers on politics, economics, etc.
Box 5, Folder 1
Murat Papers: Miscellaneous.
Box 5, Folder 2
Murat Papers: politics, 1815 - 1822
Box 5, Folder 3
Murat Papers: Literature and studies.
Box 5, Folder 4
Murat Papers: Works, 1824
Box 5, Folder 5
Murat Papers: American subjects.
Box 5, Folder 6
Murat Papers: General topic.
Box 5, Folder 7
Murat Letters about America, to Thibeaudeau.
Box 5, Folder 8
Misc. manuscripts and printed items.
Box 6
Volume of Letters, 1840 - 1845
