Lépecq de la Cloture (Louis) letters, reports and financial agreements, 1777-1778

Collection context

Summary

Title:
Louis Lépecq de la Cloture letters, reports and financial agreements
Dates:
1777-1778
Creators:
Lépecq de la Cloture, Louis
Extent:
1 unknown (2 folders)
Language:
English .

Background

Scope and content:

Collection consists of 10 holograph documents (letters, reports and financial agreements) concerning the writing of Lépecq de la Cloture's 2 v. book (Collection d'observations sur les maladies et constitution épidémiques. De l'Imprimerie privilégiée; et se trouve a Paris: Chez Didot le jeune ... [Chez] Méquignon, 1778), and supporting modern research material. The letters chiefly discuss the business of payment for, distribution of, and reaction to Lépecq's work on the epidemiology of Normandy; and his difficulties in arranging royal support from the agents of King Louis XVI, the patron of the first two vol., for publication of a third volume.

Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard

About this collection guide

Collection Guide Author:
Finding aid prepared by Kelly Besser, 2020.
Date Encoded:
This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on 2020-11-25 14:56:10 -0800 .

Access and use

Restrictions:

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Location of this collection:
Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library
12-077 Center for Health Sciences, Box 951798
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1798, US
Contact:
(310) 825-6940