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TOCQUEVILLE (ALEXIS DE) Collection of nearly forty autograph letters signed, to a variety of (often unnamed) correspondents, on official and personal matters, 1834 to 1858 where dated
11 November 2015, 13:00 GMT
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TOCQUEVILLE (ALEXIS DE)
Collection of nearly forty autograph letters signed, to a variety of (often unnamed) correspondents, on official and personal matters, including thirteen letters to Mr Blanche, a member of his official staff, on matters relating to the Conseil général of the Manche; some concern his borrowing of books and documents from Paris libraries (including works on Massachusetts and New France, and local history in the Manche department), one recommending publication of a book by a friend on the English in India up to 1834, another enquiring of an Admiral about the fate of a trunk of papers on the ship Orinoco, and in a letter of 1856 he responds to an unnamed reader ("...Vous avez raison...de dire que l'aristocratie ne saurait résulter de vains titres et que de nos jours elle ne pourrait se fonder que sur des services rendus soit dans le gouvernement soit dans l'administration provinciale! Il y a bien des années que je suis profondément convaincu de cette vérité...ce qui est mort et bien mort, c'est l'aristocratie fondée sur le sang, le caste..."), 1844-51; together with eight letters by Tocqueville's friend Louis de Loménie to a mutual friend, referring to the imminent publication of 'L'Ancien régime et la révolution' which Loménie (as editor) is to review for the Revue des deux mondes (1851-1857); fifteen letters by Tocqueville's widow Marie (nee Mottley) to Loménie, lamenting her loss and describing her late husband as 'si libéral, si impartial, si compréhensive, on n'a pas d'idée du charme que je trouvais à vivre avec cette nature-là. Tant d'indulgence pour les hommes parce qu'il les connaissait bien et pouvait faire la part de leur faiblesse, ce qui n'arrive jamais aux petits esprits' (1859-64); and two letters by Ampère, one to Loménie, coming to a financial arrangement, the other to a lady; with a group of bookseller catalogues describing some of the letters, over 60 pages, some dust-staining etc., and other minor wear, 4to and 8vo, 1834 to 1858 where dated

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