Collection on the history of the French Revolution.
Contributors: John Boyd Thacher Collection (Library of Congress)
Published: 18uu
Language: eng
Number of pages: 30
Subjects: France -- History -- Revolution, 1789-1799.
Description: Manuscript of Mr. Thacher's planned history of the French Revolution, with supporting materials. Completed chapters on Feudal rights, The opening of the States General, Necker, Address of Necker, and part of a chapter on Montesquieu. Manuscript itself is mimeographed, with extensive ms. emendations and corrections in Mr. Thacher's hand.
Notes: Politician, book and autograph collector, historian.
Gift; John Boyd Thacher's widow, Mrs. Emma Treadwell Thacher; 1925.
Discussed in The collection of John Boyd Thacher in the Library of Congress ... Washington, U.S. Govt. Print off., 1931, v. 1, p. 15 and v. 2, p. vii.