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Contemporary folder-sheet bearing title "Minutes de lettres de S.A.I. Monseigneur le Prince Vice-Roi d'Italie aux souverains de l'Europe (excepté Napoléon et le Roi Joachim)", dates not examined
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This contains the following drafts of letters (none is signed but all are presumably from Beauharnais): to "Madame" (probably the Grand-Duchess of Tuscany), June 5th 1813; to "Sire" ("le Roi de Wertemberg" indicated recto), September 7th 1813; to "Mon bon père" (King of Bavaria), September 23rd 1813; to "Ma très chère tante," December 20th 1813; to "Ma très chère tante," December 20th 1813; to "la Grande Duchesse de Toscane," January 16th 1814; to (recipient unstated, perhaps the Grand-Duchess of Tuscany), January 30th (1814?); to "Sire" ("Sa Majesté l'Empereur de Russie"), April 20th 1814, and enclosed draft of letter to same, dated April 27th 1814 (both concern the abdication of Napoleon); to "Sire" ("Sa Majesté le Roi de Prusse"), April 20th 1814 (concerns the abdication of Napoleon); to "Sire" ("Votre Majesté Impériale et Royale" indicated verso), undated (concerns the abdication of Napoleon and includes draft of armistice between Italian Army and Allied Powers).
Contemporary folder-sheet bearing title "Minutes des lettres de S.A.I. le Prince Vice-Roi d'Italie à des généraux français: 1813-1814"; this contains the following drafts of letters (none is signed but all are presumably from Beauharnais): to "Monsieur le Comte Mollien, Ministre du Trésor," May 19th 1813; to (recipient unstated, concerns "le Général Vignolle," mentioned in last paragraph), May 23rd 1813; to "Mon cher Tascher" (de la Pagerie), May 26th (1813?); to "V.A.R" ("Votre Altesse Royale"), May 26th (1813?); to "M. le Duc d'Abrantès," May 28th 1813; to "Prince," June 5th 1813; to "Prince," July 2nd 1813; to "M. le Général de Wrede," August 29th 1813; to "Monsieur le Lieutenant-Général Comte Grenier," September 29th 1813; to "le Général Grenier," October 9th (1813?) (same sheet also bears drafts of October 10th, 11th, 13th (x 2), 18th, 19th, 20th, 26th to same; dated october 17th to Pino; dated October 17th to Gifflengue); to "le Général Gifflengue," October 16th 1813; to "le Lieutenant-Général Comte Grenier," october 28th (1813?); to "Monsieur le Général Gifflengue," November 23rd (1813?) (same sheet bears undated draft to Grenier); to "Monsieur le Lieutenant-Général' (name erased), February 10th 1814; to "Monsieur le Général Comte Miollis," February 14th 1814; to (recipient unstated), April 9th 1814; to "Monsieur le Général Rougier," undated; to "Le Général Comte Grenier" (incomplete), undated; to "le Général Séras," undated.
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This collection was processed by David Rollo, Barbara Volz and John Delaney in 1991. Finding aid written by David Rollo, Barbara Volz and John Delaney in 1991.
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Contemporary folder-sheet bearing title "Minutes de lettres de S.A.I. Monseigneur le Prince Vice-Roi d'Italie aux souverains de l'Europe (excepté Napoléon et le Roi Joachim)"; Eugène de Beauharnais Collection, C0645, Manuscripts Division, Department of Special Collections, Princeton University Library
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Firestone LibraryOne Washington RoadPrinceton, NJ 08544, USA
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- Firestone Library (mss): Box 26