1828-10-18

Freycinet, de, Louis

Gaimard, Joseph Paul

Quoy, Jean René Constant

MLMSS 10413/Folder 1/Item 2

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1 manuscript letter

Letter from [J.] P. Gaimard and [J. R. C.] Quoy to Louis de Freycinet in Paris, (letter number 17) sent from Port Louis de l’Île de France [Mauritius], 18 October 1828 (7 pages on two folded sheets, postmarks, red wax seal) [in unknown hand, with final lines in Gaimard’s hand and signed by Gaimard and Quoy].
Letter is jointly signed by Gaimard and Quoy. The letter has various corrections in ink throughout in the hand of Louis de Freycinet, including some isolating of sections of the letter and crossing out, which he made while preparing it for publication in the Bulletin de la Société de géographie for 1829.

In this letter Gaimard and Quoy give an account of the voyage after their departure from Hobart on 5 January 1828 with the intention of heading for Tikopia and Vanikolo, “acting on the somewhat vague information of Captain Peter Dillon.” In the rest of the letter, Gaimard and Quoy describe in some detail their voyage to Batavia by way of the Marianas, Guam, Amboine and the Moluccas. During their one month stay in Guam, Gaimard and Quoy renewed their acquaintance with Governor José de Medinilla who had been so generous to the Uranie crew on their visit nine years before. They also saw John Anderson again, who had deserted the Uranie in Guam. The letter concludes in Gaimard’s hand with a greeting to Madame de Freycinet [Rose] and Madame Maillard [Stéphanie Pinon, sister of Rose], having heard that Stéphanie recently married.

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