ALS in French, signed “L. Pasteur,” one page, 5.25 x 8, October 19, 1886. Handwritten letter by the important French chemist and microbiologist, with a reference to his groundbreaking studies on beer yeast in the final line. In full (translated): "Thank you a thousand times for your very kind promise regarding Strauss. I would like to say that I have committed a mistake asking you to speak on the 26th. I have forgotten that the Institute would have its annual session of the five Academies on the 25th and that the session of the Academy of November first would be postponed to Tuesday the second. This is what I will do. On Tuesday the second I will ask to read a note immediately after the correspondence and I will run then to the Academy of Medicine to make the same reading at the time that the Bureau will indicate to me. The subscription has been very successful and has reached one million seven hundred francs. The English brewers are moving in recognition for the studies of the principals of their art." In fine condition.
In 1876, Pasteur published Études sur la Bière with Gauthier-Villars of Paris, discussing the practical problems of brewing and the microorganisms of fermentation. Widely studied at home and abroad, Pasteur's 'Studies on Beer' was perhaps the most noteworthy brewing book of the 19th century.
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