Letter from Louis de Freycinet to Barron Field

0.01 metres of textual material (letter in volume) - manuscript The letter was formerly owned by Paris collector Henri Ledoux. The first page of the letter is marked by his small red stamp showing his initials in a heart. Four page letter in French, with English translation provided by bookseller. Freycinet gives a personal account of the disaster which befell the Uranie and his efforts to save the ship and its crew. He tells Field of his intention to write a refutation of the article in the Quarterly Review which attacked the published account of the Baudin voyage for its alleged plagiarism of Matthew Flinders' work. He also writes of his friendship with Field and asks to be remembered to other colonists including the Macarthur, Piper, King and Macquarie families.