The McGill David Hume Collection

Inventory of Manuscripts

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MS 4

a.) Bound volume:

Letters of David Hume to the Comtesse de Boufflers

Letters of David Hume to Marquise de Barbentane

Letters of Jean-Jacques Rousseau to the Comtesse de Boufflers

Letters of Jean-Jacques Rousseau to Samuel Meuron

Letters of Jean-Jacques Rousseau to General Conway

Letters of Maréchal d'Ecosse to the Comtesse de Boufflers

Letters of The Comtesse de Boufflers to Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Letters of The Comtesse de Boufflers to David Hume

b.) Letters of David Hume
     

c.) David Hume (nephew), letter to Viscount Melville, George Street, 27 May 1809. 4 pp.

d.) Jean-Jacques Rousseau, letter to M. Lenieps, Monsmorencie, 24 April [1762]. 2 pp. P. 2 blank except for address, seal and docket. Leigh #1749

e.) Photographs of manuscripts held by the Royal Society
     of Edinburgh
     

f.) Typed copies from the manuscripts of Sir Mark Dalrymple
    

 

B1497 A3 1777 c. 3

Cheque, Edinburgh, 3 November 1777, to the order of Sir William Forbes for £574 drawn on Thomas Coutts, London, signed David Hume. With a covering letter from J. Hume (grand nephew) to James Maidment. Tipped in to a copy of The Life of David Hume, Esq. Written By Himself. London, 1777. The volume also contains contemporary newspaper clippings relating to Hume including the announcement of his death pasted in.

MS 764

Rousseau, Jean-Jacques

"Jean Jacques Rousseau, Citoyen de Geneve, a Christophe de Beaumont, archevêque de Paris… a amsterdam chés m. m. Rey. 1763." 202pp.

Contemporary transcript dated September 1763 of the edition of Rousseau's letter published by Marc Michel Rey, Amsterdam, 1763.

Bookplate of André Philippe, Archiviste-Paléographe.

References:

Geig, J.Y.T. Calendar of Hume MSS. in the possession of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. Edinburgh: Printed by Neill and co., 1932.

Greig, J.Y.T. The letters of David Hume. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1932.

Klibansky, Raymond and Ernest C. Mossner. New letters of David Hume. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1954.

Leigh, R.A. Correspondance complète de Jean Jacques Rousseau: édition critique …. Genève: Institut et musée Voltaire, 1965 - .