2. Penitentiary Notes and Reports from America in Tocqueville's hand: (from Larminat)
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Description
- Title
- 2. Penitentiary Notes and Reports from America in Tocqueville's hand: (from Larminat)
- Creator
- From the Collection: Tocqueville, Alexis de, 1805-1859
- Published / Created
- APRIL 1831--APRIL 1832
- Description
- /1/ Projet de lettre ecrite de Philadelphie le 10 9bre 1831 sur le systeme penitentiaire adopte en Pennsylvanie, adressee au Ministre de l'Interieur. 20 folio pages. /2/ Rapport sur "La Societe de discipline des prisons". 114 pages folio et 4to. /3/ Notes diverses sur les prisons des Etats-Unis, les ecoles de prisonniers, les statistiques, les moyennes des detenus dans les differents Etats. 90 pages folio et 4to. /4/ Rapport sur la prison de Sing-Sing, sous forme de projet de lettre, envoyee d'Auburn le 14 juillet 1831, adressee au Ministre de l'Interieur. 12 folio pages. /5/ Notes sur les penitenciers de Richemont, Baltimore, etc. Nombreuses notes statistiques. 27 folio pages. /6/ Rapport sur l'Etat de Maryland. 12 folio pages. /7/ Rapport sur l'Etat de Connecticut. 14 folio pages. /8/ Rapport sur l'Etat de Massachusetts. 10 folio pages. /9/ Rapport sur Philadelphie. 17 pages folio et 4to. including 2 pages later notes. /10/ Rapport sur l'Etat de New-York. 24 pages folio et 4to. /11/ Rapport sur l'Etat de Pennsylvanie. 21 pages folio et 4to. /12/ Tableaux des individus entres dans les prisons de Newgate et de Sing-Sing, classes par nature de delits. 19 pages 4to. /13/ Projet de lettre a son cousin Felix Le Peletier d'Aunay, sur le systeme penitentiaire, ecrit a Sing-Sing, le 7 juin, 1831. 12 pages 4to. /14/ Extrait du rapport de la "Society and house of refuge for the reformation of Juvenil delinquants." 3 folio pages. /15/ Notes sur les prisons des Etats-Unis, classees par ordre alphabetique. 13 pages 4to. /16/ Carnet de notes sur les prisonniers, en partie inedit, de 32 pages, dont 17 de la main de Gustave de Beaumont, 12mo, contenant des interviews de tres nombreux prisonniers americains. Some of Tocqueville's written over in ink.
- Provenance
- For information about Yale's acquisition of the materials which make up the Yale Tocqueville Manuscripts, consult the curator.
- Extent of Digitization
- This object has been completely digitized.
- Language
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French
Item Location
- Repository
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
- Call Number
- GEN MSS 982
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- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
- Yale Tocqueville Manuscripts
- Series B.: AMERICAN TRIP, APRIL 1831--APRIL 1832
- Letters and Reports
- B.I.f. Materials on American Penitentiaries:
- THIS ITEM 2. Penitentiary Notes and Reports from America in Tocqueville's hand: (from Larminat)
- Container / Volume
- Box 7
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- Citation
- Yale Tocqueville Manuscripts. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Identifiers
- Orbis Record
- 4242433
- Object ID (OID)
- 16553989