Pons-Emmanuel de LAS CASES, who followed his father to St. H - Lot 457

Pons-Emmanuel de LAS CASES, who followed his father to St. Helena and was Secretary to Napoleon I; Deputy for Finistère in 1830, returned to St. Helena with the Prince de JOINVILLE to collect the Emperor's ashes. (1800-1854): 3 Letters (2 L.A.S., 1 L.A) Paris and Passy 1833-1834 and n.d., to André DUPIN aîné, President of the Chambre des Députés; 3 pages and a half in-4 or in-8, 2 addresses (the 1st a little creased) - December 29, 1833, recommending Amédée Thayer for the Conseil général des hospices: his great fortune, "his philanthropic tastes, his administrative knowledge [...] are all guarantees of the assiduity with which he will fulfill his duties"... January 5, 1834, recommending the Traité de phrénologie humaine et comparée by Dr. Vimont, laureate of the Institut, who complemented the work of Gall and Spinoza by adding comparative phrenology (animals, men). "You will find in the atlas, for example, the head of the parricide Martin, (plate 98), and that of the negro Belin (plate 113) which won the deserved prize for virtue, and you will see that the difference in their instincts and faculties is related to the difference in their cerebral organization"... Wednesday evening. M. "de Las Cases père", indisposed, regrets not being able to attend the Dupins' invitation... - Speech delivered at the annual meeting of the Phrenological Society, 1832.