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Archives Societaire (C0233) Archives Societaire (C0233) Collection Number: C0233 Collection Title: Archives Societaire Dates: 1832-1882 Creator: Archives nationales (France), collector Abstract: Selected letters from the Archives Societaire, housed at the Archives Nationales, Paris, France. The Archives Societaire are the records of the followers of Charles Fourier. Included is correspondence of Victor Considerant, founder of the Fourierist colony at Reunion, TX, and Albert Brisbane, Fourierism’s foremost advocate in the United States. Collection Size: 2 rolls of microfilm Language: Collection materials are primarily in French. Letters in English are noted in the container list. Repository: The State Historical Society of Missouri Restrictions on Access: Collection is open for research. This collection is available at The State Historical Society of Missouri Research Center-Columbia. If you would like more information, please contact us at [email protected]. Collections may be viewed at any research center. Restrictions on Use: Materials in this collection may be protected by copyrights and other rights. See Rights & Reproductions on the Society’s website for more information and about reproductions and permission to publish. Preferred Citation: [Specific item; box number; folder number] Archives Societaire (C0233); The State Historical Society of Missouri Research Center-Columbia [after first mention may be abbreviated to SHSMO-Columbia]. Donor Information: The microfilm was purchased by the University of Missouri from the Archives Nationales (Paris, France) on March 26, 1954 (Accession No. CA3194). Existence and Location of Originals: Archives Nationales (France) Processed by: Processed by the State Historical Society of Missouri Research Center-Columbia Staff, date unknown. Finding aid revised by Anne Cox on April 7, 2020. (C0233) Archives Societaire Page 2 Historical Note: Fourierism, founded by Charles Fourier, advocated the reorganization of society into small communities or phalanxes. Fourier’s principles were advocated by the “Société pour la propaga- tion et la réalisation de la théorie de Fourier” and the Ecole Sociétaire in Paris, France. After Fourier's death in 1837, Victor Considérant became the most influential of Fourier’s disciples. Because of his political activities, Considérant was forced to leave France in 1849 and settle in Belgium. In the early 1850s, Considérant came to the United States to establish a Fourierist colony. The colony was established in Réunion, Texas, in 1855 but was dissolved by 1857. The foremost advocate of Fourierism in the United States was Albert Brisbane who renamed it Associationism and corresponded frequently with Considérant about his efforts to advance Fourierism/Associationism in the United States. Arrangement: The letters are in no discernible order. Scope and Content Note: The Archives Sociétaire consists of 208 letters, all but a few in French, dating from 1832 to 1882. The letters are not the entire Archives but rather selected letters requested by a researcher for a now unknown research topic. The letters are listed as they appear on the microfilm; each letter is numbered in the inventory but this number does not appear on the microfilm. Also included on the inventory are “targets” that appear periodically on the microfilm to aid the researcher in locating a particular letter. The letters are primarily the correspondence of Victor Considérant, Albert Brisbane, and others interested in Fourierism and the Fourierist colony in Réunion, Texas. Both men were also interested in currency reform, and later correspondence documents their concerns and ideas on this subject. Container List: Roll 1 Target: Archives Nationales 10 A S 28 Dossier 9 Letter 1. Victor Considérant, New York, to Julie Considérant, January 31, 1859, 1 page. Has returned to America. Letter 2. Victor Considérant, Brussels, to Julie Considérant, July 10, 1858, 4 pages. Reports on his attempt to find support for the colony in Europe. Letter 3. Victor Considérant, Cincinnati, to Julie Considérant, May 3, [1853], 13 pages. Describes his trip through America. Letter 4. Victor Considérant, [Austin], to Julie Considérant, n.d., 2 pages. Letter 5. Victor Considérant, New York, to Julie Considérant, June 5-6, 1858, 2 pages. Going to Europe to get help for the colony. Go to top (C0233) Archives Societaire Page 3 Letter 6. Victor Considérant, San Antonio, to Julie Considérant, December 1, 1856, 8 pages. Concerns moving from Réunion to San Antonio. Letter 7. Victor Considérant, San Antonio, to Julie Considérant, September 28, 1856, 1 page. Writes during trip looking for more land for colony. Letter 8. Victor Considérant, San Antonio, to Julie Considérant, September 14, 1856, 2 pages. Letter 9. Victor Considérant, Austin, to Julie Considérant, February 3, 1856, 2 pages. Letter 10. Directors of the colonization society to French minister of finance, December 22, 1854, 2 pages. Concerns stamp imposed on printed material distributed by the society in France. Letter 11. Victor Considérant, Austin, to Julie Considérant, December 3, 1854, 4 pages. Trying to get a land concession. Complains of the hasty dispatching of colonists before sufficient preparations. Letter 12. Victor Considérant, Brussels, to -----, October 20, 1854, 3 pages. Asks that information on the society be sent to Dana and Kipley. Letter 13. Victor Considérant, to A. [Bureau], May 1854, 4 pages. Remarks on distribution of pamphlet Au Texas. Letter 14. Victor Considérant, Brussels, to A. Bureau, June 7, 1854, 6 pages. List of subscribers to colonization society. Letter 15. Victor Considérant, Brussels, to -----, June 26, 1854, 3 pages. List of subscribers to colonization society. Letter 16. Victor Considérant, Brussels, to -----, July 27 and August 14, 1854, 3 pages. Information on subscribers to colonization society. Letter 17. Victor Considérant, Brussels, to -----, 1854, 4 pages. Concerns format of Au Texas. Letter 18. Victor Considérant, Brussels, to -----, February 6, 1854, 4 pages. Concerns Au Texas. Letter 19. Victor Considérant, Brussels, to -----, February 5, 1854, 4 pages. Concerns distribution of Au Texas. Letter 20. Victor Considérant, Buffalo, to Julie Considérant, April 23, 1853, 2 pages. Letter 21. Victor Considérant, New York, to Julie Considérant, March 26, 1853, 4 pages. Has returned from Boston. Letter 22. Victor Considérant, New York, to Julie Considérant, March 9, 1853, 4 pages. Personal matters. Letter 23. Victor Considérant, North American Phalanx [Red Bank, New Jersey] to Julie Considérant, [January 15], 1853, 8 pages. Personal matters. Letter 24. Victor Considérant, New York, to Julie Considérant, February 26, 1853, 9 pages. Discusses people he has met. Letter 25. Victor Considérant, New York, to Julie Considérant, February 19, 1853, 6 pages. Discusses possibility of a colony in America. Letter 26. Victor Considérant, Fort Smith, Arkansas, to Julie Considérant, May 18, [1853], 2 pages. Letter 27. Victor Considérant, to -----, n.d., 6 pages. (fragment). Describes trip to America. Hears about [Gauhenant], the Scarian. Letter 28. Victor Considérant, Belgium, to A. Bureau, November 20, 1852, 3 pages. Discloses plan to go to America. Letter 29. Victor Considérant, Brussels, to Emile Bourdon, January 26, 1852, 3 pages. Has heard of scheme to emigrate to America. Letter 30. Victor Considérant, to Julie Considérant, May 13, [1856], 4 pages. On tour of America. Go to top (C0233) Archives Societaire Page 4 Letter 31. Victor Considérant, Brussels, to -----, Paris, February 2, 1854, 4 pages. About Au Texas. Letter 32. Victor Considérant, Monterey, Mexico, to Julie Considérant, March 5, n.y., 2 pages. Refers to French troops in Mexico. Letter 33. Victor Considérant, Austin, to Julie Considérant, November 9-10, [1856], 3 pages. Letter 34. Victor Considérant, San Antonio, to Julie Considérant, March 6, n.y., 2 pages. Refers to purchase of land in Uralde, Texas, presumably to move the colony. Letter 35. Victor Considérant, New York, to Julie Considérant, April 5, 1853, 2 pages. Writes before beginning trip to the interior with Albert Brisbane. Letter 36. Victor Considérant, New York, to Julie Considérant, June 1858, 3 pages. Dis- cusses trip to Europe. Letter 37. Victor Considérant, Mobile, Alabama, to Julie Considérant, May 26, 1858, 1 page. On way to New York. Will stop at Washington. Letter 38. Victor Considérant to Julie Considérant, February 11, 1857, 3 pages. Letter 39. Victor Considérant, San Antonio, to Julie Considérant, February 8, 1857, 2 pages. Letter 40. Victor Considérant, San Antonio, to -----, October 1, 1856, 2 pages. Concerns expedition to find a new site for the colony. Target: Archives Nationales 10 A S 28 Dossier 10 Letter 41. Victor Considérant, San Antonio, to President-elect Ulysses S. Grant, December 27, 1868, 38 pages. Rough draft of Considérant's scheme for monetary reform. Letter 42. Victor Considérant to Horace [Greeley], n.d., 6 pages. (fragment). Discusses Greeley's opposition to women's suffrage. In English. Letter 43. Victor Considérant, San Antonio, to Charles Durant, January 15, 1868, 4 pages. Concerns monetary reform. Letter 44. Victor Considérant, San Antonio, to -----, March 16, 1868, 5 pages. Concerns monetary reform. Letter 45. Victor Considérant, San Antonio, to Charles Durant, February 16, 1869, 8 pages. Concerns monetary reform. Target: Archives Nationales 10 A S 36 Dossiers 1, 4-6, 8-10, 12, 13 Letter 46. -- Arnaud, Paris, to Emile Bourdon, August 12, 1872, 3 pages. Comments on the Bulletin du Mouvement Social. Letter 47. L. Bert,
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