Anselme PAYEN (1795-1871) chemist. 7 L.A.S., 1841-1870, to his colleague Antoine-François Boutron; 8 pages and a half in-4 or in-8, 3 on letterhead (Préfecture de Police, Conseil de Salubrité: École Centrale des Arts et Manufactures), various addresses. Appointments, thanks, recommendation for M. Favié (to appoint him to one of the weighbridges); he offers Boutron to "show him my laboratories, collection of impregnated wood &c"; 2 letters (1846) about the Quai de Javel factories. An offprint of an article by Payen in the Revue des Deux mondes on artificial soda is enclosed.