Material relating to the French Studies of E. R. Anderson

Scope and Content

The collection is composed of the following material relating to French Studies and a piece of work on Charles-Georges Le Roy, noted as per content of each box:

Box 1

  • 8 x files/folders - Notes on: Eugene; Condillac; Athalie; Mithridate; Berenice; and Phedre; and French magazine cuttings

Box 2

  • 2 x files/folders - Notes on: Andromaque; and Bajazet
  • 1 x typescript - Introduction: Charles-Georges Le Roy
  • 2 x envelopes/files - Loose notes
  • 1 x envelope/file - Correspondence, 1990s
  • 2 x volumes - Typescript notes, Descartes etc
  • Offprints - including 'Should Voltaire have killed off Pangloss?'

Box 3

  • 1 x file - Mansucript and typescript material, on Hume
  • 12 x files - Notes: manuscript material including Charles-Georges Le Roy

Box 4

  • 2 x archive folders - Notes
  • 8 x files - Notes c.1961: including Diderot, d'Holbach

Box 5

  • 5 x files - Notes: including those taken at Versailles, Archives l'Hotel de Ville: Voltaire
  • 1 x file - Correspondence, 1970s: Relating to journalTrivium
  • 2 x envelope/file - Loose manuscript notes
  • 1 x envelope/file - Notes: Archives Nationales

Box 6

  • 1 x file - Notes: A.N.
  • 1 x volume - Notes in typescript,Descartes et les betes machines
  • 1 x volume - Notes in typescript,Quelques lectures des jeunese de Descartes?
  • 1 x file - Notes, on Descartes
  • 1 x envelope - Lectures
  • 1 x box-file - Notes: Versailles, Archives l'Hotel de Ville: Voltaire
  • Assorted notes, and assorted magazine cuttings

Box 7

  • 1 x envelope/file - Notes: sur l'histoire des sciences
  • circa 5 x envelopes/files - Notes: Philosophy, Descartes etc

Box 8

  • 2 x spring-spine-files - Doctoral thesis:Charles-Georges Le Roy, philosophe encyclopediste (1723-1789)
  • 5 x pocket-files - notes

Box 9

  • 3 x files - Notes

Box 10

  • 1 x copy -Descartes et les betes machines
  • circa 7 x envelopes/files/folders - Notes
  • 1 x file - Correspondence
  • 1 x copy - Work relating to Charles-Georges Le Roy,Lettres sur les animaux, by Elizabeth R. Anderson, published by the Voltaire Foundation, Oxford, 1994
  • 1 x copy -Helvetius de l'esprit
  • Assorted correspondence, notes, ephemera relating to Charles-Georges Le Roy and the work,Lettres sur les animaux

Box 11

  • 1 x drawer of files in card index format

Administrative / Biographical History

Elizabeth Ramsay Anderson graduated from Edinburgh University in 1947 with the degree of M.A. She was awarded the degree of Ph.D. in 1952 (Edinburgh) for her research entitledCharles-Georges Le Roy, philosophe encyclopediste (1723-1789).

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