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Collection Overview
- Creator:
- Hyde de Neuville, Anne-Marguerite-Henriette Rouillé de Marigny, baronne, 1749?-1849
- Collector:
- Princeton University. Library. Special Collections
- Title:
- Baroness Hyde de Neuville Collection
- Repository:
- Manuscripts Division
- Permanent URL:
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/x346d421r
- Dates:
- 1806-1968
- Size:
- 1 box and 0.2 linear feet
- Storage Note:
- Firestone Library (mss): Box 1
- Language:
- English
Abstract
Consists of correspondence, photographs, and printed matter concerning the Baron and Baroness Hyde de Neuville.
Collection Description & Creator Information
- Description:
The collection consists of correspondence, photographs, and printed matter concerning the Baron and Baroness Hyde de Neuville. The collection contains Xerox copies of letters (with typed English transcriptions) exchanged between the baron, who was the French ambassador to the U.S. under Louis XVIII (1816-1822), and Thomas Jefferson, and a Xerox of a letter by Jefferson to James Madison, as well as photographs of the Hyde de Neuville house outside of New Brunswick, N.J., where the baron and baroness lived part of the time during their years of exile (1807-1814) from the Napoleonic reign in France. There are also catalogs of 20th-century exhibitions of the baroness's pencil sketches and watercolors of Indians, common people, and buildings of architectural interest such as the First Presbyterian Church of Princeton then under construction (1813).
- Collection Creator Biography:
The baron and baroness Hyde de Neuville lived in New Brunswick, N.J., during their years of exile (1807-1814) from the Napoleonic reign in France. The baroness was a watercolorist. The baron served as ambassador to the U.S. (1816-1822) and Portugal under Louis XVIII.
Collection History
- Acquisition:
AM19510
- Archival Appraisal Information:
No appraisal information is available.
- Processing Information:
Folder inventory added by Allyse Terrell '2014 in 2012.
Access & Use
- Access Restrictions:
The collection is open for research.
- Conditions for Reproduction and Use:
Single photocopies may be made for research purposes. No further photoduplication of copies of material in the collection can be made when Princeton University Library does not own the original. Inquiries regarding publishing material from the collection should be directed to RBSC Public Services staff through the Ask Us! form. The library has no information on the status of literary rights in the collection and researchers are responsible for determining any questions of copyright.
- Credit this material:
Baroness Hyde de Neuville Collection; Manuscripts Division, Department of Special Collections, Princeton University Library
- Permanent URL:
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/x346d421r
- Location:
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Firestone LibraryOne Washington RoadPrinceton, NJ 08544, USA(609) 258-3184
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- Subject Terms:
- Ambassadors -- France -- 19th century -- Correspondence.
Exiles -- France -- 19th century.
Indians of North America -- Portraits -- 19th century.
Political refugees -- France -- 19th century.
Watercolor drawings, French -- United States -- Exhibitions -- 20th century. - Genre Terms:
- Correspondence -- 19th century.
Exhibition catalogs -- 20th century.
Photographs -- 20th century. - Names:
- Princeton Presbyterian Church (N.J.)
Hyde de Neuville, Jean Guillaume, baron, 1776-1857
Hyde de Neuville, Jean Guillaume, baron, 1776-1857
