[MILES, William Augustus (vers 1753–1817)]. - photo 1

[MILES, William Augustus (vers 1753–1817)].

Lot 125
21.11.2022 12:00UTC +00:00
Classic
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€ 3 000
AuctioneerCHRISTIE'S
Event locationUnited Kingdom, London
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Lot 125 | [MILES, William Augustus (vers 1753–1817)].
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€ 3 000 – 5 000
[MILES, William Augustus (vers 1753–1817)]. Archive manuscrite.
Circa fin 1816

Une note dactylographiée, en anglais, indique : "ces documents ont été envoyés par M. Lafayette à M. Wm. A. Miles en 1816, quand ce dernier travaillait à une Histoire de la Révolution Française...Ils semblent tous de la même main mais elle n'est peut-être pas celle de M. Lafayete. Le document le plus important est celui dans lequel Lfayette envoie une lettre à Miles, sur la situation politique en France au 1er octobre 1815 ".

- To the King George the Third. En anglais. 68 pp. 1/2 (327 x 97 mm), encre noire sur papier. Signé W.A. Miles sur la dernière page, suivi d'une mention finale : "to be published either anonymously or avoidedly". Les feuillets sont cotenus dans un bifeuillet avec annotations autographes du quatrième fils de W.A. Miles, Charles Popham Miles (1810-1891). Cette note indique notamment :"portions of this letter may be advantageously extracted as bearing on the French Revolution and on the then state of Europe. C.P.M.".
- Notes on ancient times. 26 pp. 1/2 (310 x 207 mm), encre brune sur papier.
- Mémoire sur l'abolition de l'esclavage et les Protestants. 7 pp. (310 x 207 mm), encre brune sur papier.
- Bulletin de la situation politique de la France. 7 pp. 1/2 (310 x 207 mm), encre brune sur papier.
- ["Notes d'un citoyen américain sur les Cent-Jours"]. 16 pp. (310 x 207 mm), encre brune sur papier.
- ["Notes d'un citoyen américain sur les Cent-Jours"]. 30 pp. (310 x 207 mm), encre brune sur papier.
- "Réponses à quelques questions", notamment sur Philippe-Egalité et Louis XVIII. 9 pp. 1/2 (320 x 210 mm), encre brune sur papier.

An interesting manuscript archive, including a letter to King George III, and various texts about the French Revolution, the Abolition of Slavery, Napoleon. Several pages exhibit annotations by W.A. Miles' fourth son, Charles Popham Miles, who notably edited the correspondence of his father at the end of the 19th century.


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