Yale Tocqueville Manuscripts

Bonnel - "Instituteur" at the Elementary School, Tocqueville, Manche. The copies of the Tocqueville Tocqueville Mss. (i.e., Tocqueville manuscripts at the Tocqueville chateau, see below) were made almost entirely by him: first, for Neal Lambert White (below), then for Prof. John M. S. Allison and the White Collection on deposit in the library, then for GWP and the Yale Library. Until 1930 virtually all his copying was done into bound cahiers or copybooks. Then he used some long, lined legal- size sheets for additional items required by GWP. His hand is very clear and unmistakable. He was a faithful but not very imaginative copyist. He attempted to indicate when the original was not in Alexis de Tocqueville's hand.

Bt. - Gustave de Beaumont (1802-1866).

Bt. la Ch. - The chateau de la Borde, Beaumont la Chartre, Sarthe. The family Gentilhommiere of Beaumont's parents and his own home in later life. (now sold)

Doysie - Abel Doysie, in charge of having copies of French Diplomatic Archives made for the Library of Congress. His secretaries made the copies for White (below) of the Tocqueville American Manuscripts which White found at Redier's office in Paris and set aside temporarily to be copied. These copies were well done by two women: Mme. Desorments and Mademoiselle Anacreon (Mme. Jouhet) on long, lined, legal-size sheets, using the key numbers of White's inventory 3W (1920-1921) (see E.IV.e.).

Fabius - Emmanuel Fabius of Paris, joint owner of many Lafayette manuscripts, and donor of some Tocqueville items to GWP in 1956.

GWP - George Wilson Pierson, who began working on the Yale Tocqueville Archive in 1928 or 1929.

H. - Harvard (Widener) Library.

HJC - Harold Jefferson Coolidge.

HSP - Historical Society of Pennsylvania

Hunt. - Huntington Library, California.

Jardin - Andre Jardin: See E IV.e for information re A.J.; also see E.VI.e.8.

Langavant - Mme. de Langavant of St. Malo, a descendant of Beaumont's brother, Achille.

Larminat - Madeleine (Mme. Michel) de Larminat, daughter of Mme. de Beaumont-Hennocque and great grand-daughter of Gustave de Beaumont. Donor or vendor of most of the Beaumont manuscripts in the Yale Tocqueville Mss., 1953, 1955, 1956, 1964, 1969, 1973.

LC - Library of Congress: Ms. Division.

MHS - Massachusetts Historical Society.

NYHS - New York Historical Society.

Photo - Photograph or photostat.

Pub. Arch. C. - Public Archives of Canada.

Redier - Antoine Redier, author of Comme disait M. de Tocqueville ... (1926), in whose Paris office White found many Tocqueville manuscripts.

Redier Mss. - Tocqueville manuscripts in Redier's Paris office in the years 1920-21.

Robson - Prof. Robson, formerly working on Francis Lieber at the Huntington library (Hunt).

Romanet - Romanet family, branch of Bt. family.

Stoffels - Stoffels family - especially Mlle. Stoffels d'Hautefort.

T. & B. in Am. - Tocqueville and Beaumont in America (1938) by GWP.

Tocqueville - Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-1859).

Tocqueville Tocqueville Mss. - His Mss. at Tocqueville chateau in the years 1929-31.

White - Paul Lambert White (1890-1922). It was White who, as a beginning instructor at Yale, first looked up the Tocqueville and Beaumont families, saw Tocqueville and Beaumont Mss. at Tocqueville, at Redier's Paris office and perhaps also in the hands of the Beaumont family, and made three catalogues (plus some extracts and translations) and started having copies made for Yale by Bonnel and by Doysie's copyists.