Catalogue description Original letters: Thomas Brand 1780 & 1786

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Details of 1922/B8
Reference: 1922/B8
Title: Original letters: Thomas Brand 1780 & 1786
Description:

Letters from Thomas Brand to Miss (Susan) Brand, from Chamonix, 1780 [11 letters], Geneva 1781[1 letter], and a tour in the Alps, 1786. This latter is written in the form of one long journal.

 

Author: BRAND, Thomas

 

Places: Chamonix

Date: 1780
Held by: Alpine Club Archives, not available at The National Archives
Language: English
Physical description: 1 volume (58 p.)
Physical condition: ms
Immediate source of acquisition:

Unknown. A letter from T.S. Blakeney to Gavin de Beer, 1953, debating the identity of Thomas Brand, suggests that the letters had been in the possession of the AC since the 1920s (i.e. the time of J.P. Farrar).

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