Henry A. Meyer Collection of Napoleonic and French Revolution Covers and Documents, part 2, Vol. 3-7
The Henry A. Meyer Collection of Napoleonic and French Revolution Covers and Documents is composed 14 volumes divided in five parts by accession lots: 1979.0098 (Volumes 1/2); 1981.0819 (Volumes 3-7); 1983.0780 (Volumes 8/9); 1985.0026 (Volumes 10/11) and 1986.0025 (Volumes 12-14)
Part 2 (Volumes 3-7) consists of 385 objects.
Volume 3:
* Relations between France and America
* The Republican Government: Committee of Public Safety
* Government Bureaus: Cabinet offices and public services; bureaus of control of public life; bureaus relating to the Army and War; Courts and Police; Postal Service; semi-official organizations
* Republican town postmarks: typical marks; peculiarities of certain marks; dated marks; backstamps
Volume 4:
* Republican receiving marks
* Marks indicating prepayment and free franking
* Explanation of debourse marks
* Special post offices and unusual marks
* Marks of entry into France
* The Revolution in the Low Countries, Savoy and Switzerland
* Wars of the First Coalition and Formation of Departments 91-98
* The Revolution in the Rhineland
* The first mention of Napoleon
* Republics of Northern Italy and their postmarks
* End of the Wars of the First Coalition by the Treaty of Campo Formio (1797)
Volume 5:
* The Helvetic Republic
* The Rhineland as part of the Republic
* Republican place names in Germany and Italy
* Marks of certain towns through the years
* Wars of the Second Coalition
* Expedition to Egypt
* Establishment of the Consulate
* End of the Wars of the Second Coalition (Treaty of Luneville, 1801)
Volume 6:
* Re-established French republics and kingdoms of Northern Italy: Cisalpine Republic; Kingdom of Etruria; Piedmontese Nation
* Cisalpine Republic becomes Republic of Italy
* Commerce between France and St.-Domingue
* Napoleon's threat to invade England
* Naval war between England and France
* Establishment of the French Empire
* The Emperor's household
* Government bureaus of the Empire
* Forms of royalty replace the Republican phrases
* Town names are changed to honor Napoleon
* War of the Third Coalition and the Peace of Pressburg (1805)
* French occupation of Northern and Western Germany
Volume 7:
* Reorganization of Northern Italy
* Republic of Italy becomes the Kingdom of Italy
* Official machinery of the Kingdom of Italy
* Tuscany, Parma and Elba are merged into the Kingdom of Italy
