Catalogue description Beaufoy Papers

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Details of 1922/C12
Reference: 1922/C12
Title: Beaufoy Papers
Description:

Account of ascent of Mont Blanc in 1787 by Colonel Mark Beaufoy, plus further letters etc, relating to this ascent, and the Beaufoy family.

 

Author: BEAUFOY, Mark

 

Contains: Narrative of a Journey from the Village of Chamouni in Switzerland to the summit of Mount Blanc, undertaken on the 8th of August 1787 by Mark Beaufoy Esq." 20pp. ms, bound into boards with two letters from Beaufoy's grandson, 1911, tipped in. Piece Ref: 1922/C12/1.

 

Places: Mont Blanc
Date: 1787
Held by: Alpine Club Archives, not available at The National Archives
Language: English
Physical description: 1 file
Physical condition: ms and typescript
Immediate source of acquisition:

The account of the ascent of Mont Blanc (1922/C12/1) was acquired by the AC in about 1910. Further material (1922/C12/2) was donated to the AC in 1982 by William Clowes, the great great grandson of Mark Beaufoy.

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