Item – Europeana Transcribe

Papiers d'Abbadie. Correspondances et documents sur la famille d'Abbadie et sur l'Éthiopie (XVIe-XIXe siècle). VI Correspondance d'Antoine et d'Arnauld d'Abbadie sur leurs voyages en Abyssinie (1839-1849). Item 531

TRANSCRIPTION

Review

treat the question between us as a personal one, his presence in London (to say

nothing of his Residence in Paris) would have afforded him a suitable opportunity

of "vindicating himself" in accordance with the pledge of his friend M^r Ayrton. -

But from his having omitted to do this and many months having since elapsed,

during the whole of which time he has remained either in France or England and

I have been stationary in London, it is clear that he regards it simply as a

question connected with geography. -

On the 25^th of March last, now more than three months ago, at a meeting of

the Royal Geographical society of London (being the one alluded to in M^r Ayrton's

Note as "a late evening meeting" of that society), I openly expressed my belief

that M. d'Abbadie had not, as publicly asserted by him, performed any

journey to Kaffa for the purpose of discovering the source of the Nile

I had previously made a similar communication by Letter to the Geographical

Society of Paris at its meeting on the 15^th of the same month; and at a

Meeting of the latter society on the 3^rd of May last, M. d'Abbadie expressed

his surprise that I, who had never been to Kaffa, should pretend to

criticise his alleged journey thither, and stated his readiness to sustain

a geographical discussion fairly offered by any person but myself! -

[From this it is manifest that] M. d'Abbadie is averse to a geographical discussion with me, who

am the only person possessing that information respecting the locality in question

which is essential to the elucidation of the truth and it certainly appears strange

that he should have authorised his Brother now in London and his Friend M^r

Ayrton to "request an explanation" from me on a subject which he has

publicly declined discussing with me. -

But without entering further into particulars, I have only to say that the

question is no longer between M. d'Abbadie and myself. It has become public

property; to the public alone i am now amenable; and to the Public I shall

submit, without loss of time, the evidence, in detail, in proof of my allegation.

This evidence was, as you are aware, prepared many months ago; and

lest I should by any possibility have erred in my judgement, - when I should

have felt it my duty to apologize to M. d'Abbadie for the wrong done him in as

public a manner as my charge itself has been made, - I have submitted it to

Language(s) of Transcription

English

STORY INFORMATION

Title

Papiers d'Abbadie. Correspondances et documents sur la famille d'Abbadie et sur l'Éthiopie (XVIe-XIXe siècle). VI Correspondance d'Antoine et d'Arnauld d'Abbadie sur leurs voyages en Abyssinie (1839-1849).

Source

Bibliothèque nationale de France. Département des manuscrits. NAF 23853

Type

http://data.europeana.eu/concept/17

manuscript

http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q87167

manuscrit

Relation

Catalogue notice: http://archivesetmanuscrits.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cc12236x/cd0e117

Notice du catalogue : http://archivesetmanuscrits.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cc12236x/cd0e117

Rights

https://rightsstatements.org/page/NoC-OKLR/1.0/?relatedURL=https://gallica.bnf.fr/edit/und/conditions-dutilisation-des-contenus-de-gallica

domaine public

public domain

Language

fra

fre

Identifier

http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b10082085c

Bibliothèque nationale de France. Département des manuscrits. NAF 23853

LandingPage

https://www.europeana.eu/item/9200519/ark__12148_btv1b10082085c

Country

France

DataProvider

http://data.europeana.eu/organization/1482250000002112001

Provider

http://data.europeana.eu/organization/1482250000002112001

Rights

http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-OKLR/1.0/

DatasetName

9200519_Ag_BnF_Gallica_typedoc_manuscrits

Begin

1501-01-01

End

1900-12-31

IsShownAt

https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b10082085c

Language

Created

2022-06-01T14:52:47.829238Z

2022-06-01T14:52:47.829618Z

2022-06-01T06:45:14.254Z

file:///usr/local/tomcat/webapps/RDF/XML#1501%2F1900

1501-1900

Story Description

Numérisation effectuée à partir d'un document de substitution : R 25528.