Subject	Explorers
	Voyages and travels
	Australia–Discovery and exploration
	Australia–Description and travel
	Oceania–Discovery and exploration
	Discovery and exploration–French
	French letters
Category	1. Settlement
Author	Arago, François
Keywords	Uranie (corvette)
Person	Freycinet, de, Louis
	Arago, Dominique François Jean
Current Holder	National Library of Australia
Date	1820-11-24
Series Number	MS Acc10.187
Item Number	5011567
Access Rights	Request at location
Rights	Copyright Undetermined. Available for research. Not for loan.
Country Of Origin	France
Place	Le Havre
Language	French
Description From Source	1 item (24.0 x 35.8 cm.) Two-page autograph letter folded to letter size 24.0 x 18.0 cm. Neatly written to the first two pages, with 28 lines of text, the third page blank and the fourth an address panel. Condition: Showing old folds and traces of original seal. The letter dated 24 November 1820 from François Arago addressed to Louis de Freycinet, still aboard the Physicienne at Le Havre not long after his return from the 1817-1820 l’Uranie expedition to Australia and the Pacific. In the letter, Arago laments the indifferent reception from the French authorities for Freycinet’s return, congratulates Freycinet on the scientific observations from the expedition, reports on some unusual results from the calculations he had made with these observations, and sends his fond regards to Rose de Freycinet, who had illegally accompanied her husband on the expedition.
Physical Format	Letters
Bibliographic Citation	https://www.zotero.org/groups/4688363/oama/items/VG4H5MQF/
	https://www.zotero.org/groups/4688363/oama/items/IV8Q7ETF/

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