Lucien Amadieu correspondence, circa 1900-1935 (bulk 1913-1914).

0.21 linear feet (1 box)

French

In French.

Purchased from Pierre Berès (Hotel Drouot sale, 2004 March 18, lot 138) on the Edwin J. Beinecke Book Fund, 2004.

Arranged chronologically.

This material is open for research.

Pneu Michelin, founded in 1899 in Clermont-Ferrand, France, is a manufacturer of tires and publisher of guidebooks and maps; its first factory in the United States operated in Milltown, New Jersey, 1907-1930.

Seventeen autograph letters, signed, from Lucien Amadieu, a French businessman traveling in the United States as a representative of Pneu Michelin, to an unidentified uncle and aunt, 1911-1914. Letters dated 1913-1914 concern travels in New York, New Jersey, Vermont, New Hampshire, and Florida, including observations on the Pneu Michelin factory in Milltown, New Jersey, the American automobile industry, and American business and politics. Also present are five unidentified letters and documents, 1904-1935, apparently relating to Amadieu's family, some referring to Amadieu or to Irenne Felgères; and two photographs of a man, possibly Amadieu, on the deck of an unidentified ship, circa 1900.

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June 09, 2015

Lucien Amadieu Correspondence. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.

Lucien Amadieu Correspondence. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.

Photographs.