Subject	Discovery and exploration–French
	Voyages and travels
	Australia–Description and travel
	Australia–Discovery and exploration
	Australia–Social life and customs
	Explorers
	Business
	Australasia
	French letters
	Correspondence
Category	1. Settlement
Author	Freycinet, Louis Claude Desaulses de
Keywords	Expedition
Person	Freycinet, de, Louis
Current Holder	State Library of Victoria
Period Of Reference	1832/1838
Date	1832-01-01
Series Number	MS 15816
Item Number	9937750643607636
Access Rights	Request at location
Rights	Copyright or permission restrictions may apply.
Country Of Origin	Australia
Language	French
	English
Description From Source	1.0 cm.; English translations are provided with the documents. Eight letters by Louis de Saulces de Freycinet, the first to Louis Marie Bajot, Head of the Law Office at the Ministry and Inspector General of Naval and Colonial Libraries in France; six letters to Freycinet’s cousin Jenny de Montlovier and one to an unidentified aunt (18 October 1833). The correspondence in this collection, covering the years 1832-1839, is written after the death of Freycinet’s wife Rose, and concerns mostly family and business matters. There are several references to a mill which Freycinet owned: the difficulty of water supply, maintenance of the fabric and problems with the tenants. One of the letters (27 September 1832) contains a brief and completely negative allusion to his early naval career and the Baudin expedition, as well as a reminiscence of his marriage to Rose and his continuing grief at her loss. The collection also contains a brief biographical resume of Freycinet’s life.
Physical Format	Letters
	Correspondence
	Typescripts
Bibliographic Citation	https://www.zotero.org/groups/4688363/oama/items/3NI2S5GF/
	https://www.zotero.org/groups/4688363/oama/items/X5WH6LP8/