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

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

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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