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Creator
Chaumont, Jacques-Donatien Leray de, 1725-1803
Call number
MssCol 746
Physical description
.08 linear feet (1 volume)
Preferred Citation

Jacques Donatien and James Le Ray de Chaumont letters and documents, Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library

Repository
Manuscripts and Archives Division
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Jacques Donatien Le Ray de Chaumont (1726-1803) was a French supporter of the American Revolution. Volume contains correspondence of Le Ray de Chaumont with Benjamin Franklin, Antoine de Sartine, and Charles Gravier, comte de Vergennes, as well as letters of John Adams, John Jay, Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, James Monroe, and others. Also includes tables of depreciation, minutes of Congress, extracts from newspapers, and letters of his grandson, James Le Ray de Chaumont, also known as James Le Ray. Letterpress copies of transcripts in French and English.

Scope and arrangement

Jacques Donatien Le Ray de Chaumont (1726-1803) was a French supporter of the American Revolution. Volume contains correspondence of Le Ray de Chaumont with Benjamin Franklin, Antoine de Sartine, and Charles Gravier, comte de Vergennes, as well as letters of John Adams, John Jay, Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, James Monroe, and others. Also includes tables of depreciation, minutes of Congress, extracts from newspapers, and letters of his grandson, James Le Ray de Chaumont, also known as James Le Ray. Letterpress copies of transcripts in French and English.

Administrative information

Source of acquisition

Presented by John Bigelow, 1897.

Processing information

Compiled by Kit Messick, 2013

Using the collection

Location

Manuscripts and Archives Division
Stephen A. Schwarzman Building
Fifth Avenue at 42nd Street, New York, NY 10018-2788
Brooke Russell Astor Reading Room, Third Floor, Room 328