Guide to the Papers of Charles Meryon (as filmed by the AJCP)

Letters of Pierre-Narcisse Chaspoux and her son Charles Meryon to Charles Lewis Meryon (letters 1-100), 1821 - 1839 (Item ff. 1-196)

The letters from Chaspoux (also known as Mme. Gentil) date from 1821 to 1836, two years before her death, and were written from Paris. Charles Lewis Meryon travelled extensively and the letters were addressed to Florence, Marseilles, the Levant, Broadstairs, as well as London. The earliest letter that he received from his son was written in 1828 and there are regular letters from onwards...

Letters of Charles Meryon to his father Charles Lewis Meryon and some letters from other correspondents regarding Charles Meryon (letters 101-219), 1839 - 1868 (Item ff. 197-568)

The letters from Meryon, which are the originals, date from 1839 to 1863, five years before his death. They were mostly written in Paris, but some of the earlier letters, which document his naval service, were written in Toulon, Smyrna, Tunis, Valparaiso, Tahiti and Akaroa. They were addressed to his father in London. All the Meryon letters are in French...

Typescript copies of two letters (1892) from Lewis Meryon to Frederick Wedmore, the author of Meryon and Meryon's Paris (1879), 1892 (Item ff.1-4)

Although described individually, the last page of the second letter was originally filmed with a page from another letter. The last page of the letter described can be found at the beginning of nla.obj-753486261.

English translations of letters (nos. 195-216) from Charles Meryon and other correspondents to Charles Lewis Meryon, 1863 - 1866 (Item 2)

Meryon contemplated using the letters as a basis for a novel and he assigned fictitious names to the writers, such as Clarence D'Anvers (Charles Meryon) and Mrs Dashwood (Fanny Broadwood). There is also an index to the letters. (pp. 5-68)

Fragments of a diary kept by Charles Lewis Meryon in England and France, June 1818 - October 1818 (Item 3)

One entry refers to the birth of Fanny Lowther, Charles Meryon's half-sister. (pp. 69-72)

'Annotations de la carte', comprising brief hydrographical notes in New Zealand waters, 1846 (Item ff. 85-87)

Notes and sketches of skies and birds in the South Seas and also Wallis Island word lists, 1842 - 1846 (Item ff. 88-100)

Sketches of vessels in the South Seas and notes, 1842 - 1846 (Item ff. 101-25)

Agenda notes written by Meryon in his last years, 1890 - 1891 (Item ff. 126-181)

The date of the Agenda notes is known. Includes a cutting from the St James Gazette (17 July 1891) and two Christies' catalogues of sales of engravings and etchings by Meryon (26 Nov. 1890, 17 July 1891). (pp. 182-203)