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Smithsonian Institution. Office of the Secretary. Correspondence, 1865-1891

Title: Correspondence, 1865-1891

This record unit consists of outgoing correspondence from the Office of the Secretary during the tenures of Joseph, Henry, 1846-1878; Spencer Fullerton Baird, 1878-1887; and Samuel Pierpoint Langley, 1887-1906.

ArchivalResource: 46.06 cu. ft. (62 document boxes) (68 3x5 boxes) (243 microfilm reels)

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Warner, John, -1873. Letters and papers, 1850-1864

Title: John Warner letters and papers, 1850-1864

The major portion of this correspondence deals with the controversy which arose when Benjamin Peirce, after having seen the manuscript of Warner's "Studies in Organic Morphology" (Philadelphia, 1857), read a paper on morphology before the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1855). Other topics discussed include the alleged "Harvard clique," the administration of the Dudley Observatory (Albany, N.Y.), and the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey.

ArchivalResource: 255 items

http://www.amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.B.W243-ead.xml View

John Fries Frazer papers, 1834-1871, 1834-1871

Title: John Fries Frazer papers, 1834-1871 1834-1871

Principal correspondents in the lettes of John Fries Frazer include Alexander Dallas Bache, Louis Agassiz, Joseph Henry, and Titian Ramsay Peale who discuss mainly general scientific topics, although personal and family matters are discussed with Bache. Topics include the University of Pennsylvania, boiler explosions, chemistry, education, the National Academy of Sciences, the Smithsonian Institution, fossils, magnetism, solar eclipses, the American Philosophical Society, weights and measures, the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey, scientific instruments, the American Civil War, electricity, the United States Mint, the Franklin Institute, scientists of the period, natural history, and publications.

ArchivalResource: 3.0 Linear feet, 6 boxes, ca. 683 items

http://www.amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.B.F865-ead.xml View

Carey, Henry Charles, 1793-1879. Henry C. Carey letter to Frederick Fraley, 1840 June 2.

Title: Henry C. Carey letter to Frederick Fraley, 1840 June 2.

Carey writes to Fraley, 2 June 1840, expressing his strong opinions about Snowden's "villainous bill" in the Pennsylvania Legislature. Includes integral envelope.

ArchivalResource: 2 p.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/146208968 View

American Philosophical Society Archives. Record Group IIj, 1898-1988

Title: American Philosophical Society Archives. Record Group IIj 1898-1988

This is part of the large inventory for the American Philosophical Society Archives. For complete information concerning this collection, please view the . Collection Description

ArchivalResource: 1.0 section

http://www.amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/APS.Archives.IIj-ead.xml View

Francois André Michaux papers, 1802-1911, 1802-1911

Title: Francois André Michaux papers, 1802-1911 1802-1911

Relating especially to American Philosophical Society business, these papers contain letters to and from men of science and institutions in Europe on the purchase and shipment of books and on the pubications of the Society. Many of the letters are to or from John Vaughan.

ArchivalResource: 0.25 Linear feet, Ca. 300 items

http://www.amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.B.M58.1-ead.xml View

Smithsonian Institution. Office of the Secretary. Correspondence, 1863-1879

Title: SIA RU000026, Smithsonian Institution Office of the Secretary, Correspondence, 1863-1879

This series consists mostly of correspondence addressed to Joseph Henry, much of which received his personal attention; also included are some copies of Henry letters, occasional returned original Henry letters, and a considerable number of letters to Spencer Fullerton Baird.

ArchivalResource: 59.56 cubic feet

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Peale-Sellers family collection, 1686-1963

Title: Peale-Sellers Family Collection, 1686-1963

The collection, divided into seven series, represents the careers and interests of the members of the Peale-Sellers family from the 1670s to 1960s. More than half is correspondence among various members of the families. The Peale family is best known as a family of artists; however, family interests and activities were much more wide-ranging. The best known Peale is Charles Willson Peale (1741-1827, APS 1786), who produced more than one thousand paintings, including hundreds of portraits of leading Americans during the colonial and early national periods. Peale was married three times, to Rachel Brewster (1744-1790), Elizabeth de Peyster (1765-1804), and Hannah More (1755-1821). He had eighteen children, eleven of whom reached adulthood. Three of Charles Willson Peale’s sons became artists: Raphaelle Peale (1774-1825), Rembrandt Peale (1778-1860), and Rubens Peale (1784-1865). A fourth son, Titian Ramsay Peale (1799-1885, APS 1833), was a naturalist (who made drawings on the exploring expeditions he accompanied) and pioneer in photography, and another son, Benjamin Franklin Peale (1795-1870), became a naturalist and paleontologist. Peale’s daughter Sophonisba Angusciola was married to Coleman Sellers (1781-1834), an inventor and manufacturer of machinery, including locomotives. Two of their sons, George Escol Sellers (1808-1899) and Coleman Sellers (1827-1907, APS 1872), were inventors and engineers. The latter served as director of the construction of the hydro-electric power development at Niagara Falls. He was married to Cornelia Wells Sellers (1831-1909). One of their grandsons was Charles Coleman Sellers (1903-1980, APS 1979), a librarian and historian and the author of several studies of the Peale family, including a Charles Willson Peale biography.

ArchivalResource: 19.0 Linear feet; 38 Boxes; 147 Volumes

http://www.amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.B.P31-ead.xml View

Smithsonian Archives. Alexander Dallas Bache Papers.

Title: Smithsonian Archives. Alexander Dallas Bache Papers.

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American Philosophical Society Archives. Record Group IIh, 1892-1896

Title: American Philosophical Society Archives. Record Group IIh 1892-1896

This is part of the large inventory for the American Philosophical Society Archives. For complete information concerning this collection, please view the . Collection Description

ArchivalResource: 1.0 section

http://www.amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/APS.Archives.IIh-ead.xml View

American Philosophical Society. Robert Hare Papers.

Title: American Philosophical Society. Robert Hare Papers.

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Rhees, William Jones, 1830-1907. William Jones Rhees Papers, 1744-1907

Title: William Jones Rhees Papers 1744-1907

This collection contains the papers of Smithsonian chief clerk, bibliographer, and collector William Jones Rhees (1830-1907), of materials assembled chiefly for their autograph value, though the collection contains various groups of related materials. Includes papers of American physicist and surveyor Alexander Dallas Bache (1806-1867), American geographer Henry Rowe Schoolcraft (1793-1864), National Institute for the Promotion of Sciences, and the Smithsonian Institution, as well as correspondence of William Jones Rhees, letters and papers addressed to the United States Pension Bureau, letters and papers related to Indian affairs, and miscellaneous autograph letters and documents.

ArchivalResource: Approx. 4,700 pieces in 64 boxes.

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American Philosophical Society Archives. Record Group IIf, 1866-1886

Title: American Philosophical Society Archives. Record Group IIf 1866-1886

This is part of the large inventory for the American Philosophical Society Archives. For complete information concerning this collection, please view the . Collection Description

ArchivalResource: 1.0 section

http://www.amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/APS.Archives.IIf-ead.xml View

Warner, John, d. 1873. Letters and papers, 1850-1864.

Title: Letters and papers, 1850-1864.

The major portion of this correspondence deals with the controversy which arose when Benjamin Peirce, after having seen the manuscript of Warner's "Studies in Organic Morphology" (Philadelphia, 1857), read a paper on morphology before the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1855). Other topics discussed include the alleged "Harvard clique," the administration of the Dudley Observatory (Albany, N.Y.), and the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey.

ArchivalResource: 255 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122540871 View

American Philosophical Society Archives. Record Group IIg, 1887-1891

Title: American Philosophical Society Archives. Record Group IIg 1887-1891

This is part of the large inventory for the American Philosophical Society Archives. For complete information concerning this collection, please view the . Collection Description

ArchivalResource: 1.0 section

http://www.amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/APS.Archives.IIg-ead.xml View

Cope, Thomas P. (Thomas Pim), 1768-1854. Letterbooks, 1788-1853 [microform].

Title: Letterbooks, 1788-1853 [microform].

The records consist of a microfilm of four volumes of letterbooks containing Cope's outbound correspondence from December 1788 to May 1853. The quantity of letters decreases markedly after 1835, as Cope relinquishes most of the details of business to his sons. Cope kept no diary between 1820 and 1843, and the letters are the primary source on his life and career during this period.

ArchivalResource: 4 reels.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/86119173 View

Fraley, F. (Frederick). Correspondence with Constant Guillou, 1858.

Title: Correspondence with Constant Guillou, 1858.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 leaf).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/63551615 View

Fraley, F. Letters to Mary E. Bird, 1859.

Title: Letters to Mary E. Bird, 1859.

ArchivalResource: 2 items (2 leaves).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/63555832 View

Peale-Sellers families. Correspondence, 1686-1963.

Title: Correspondence, 1686-1963.

This collection includes wide-ranging, miscellaneous correspondence, with some other manuscripts, of members of the Peale and Sellers families, on natural history, the Philadelphia Museum, engineering, current events, and family matters. There is a group of letters and papers of Titian Ramsay Peale, including a sketchbook and a large number of loose sketches. There is also a group of letters of Rubens Peale and one of letters of Raphaelle Peale.

ArchivalResource: 12 boxes.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122584100 View

Fraley, Frederick. Postcard to Horace Howard Furness, Jr., 1927.

Title: Postcard to Horace Howard Furness, Jr., 1927.

Item is 1 postcard showing the House of the Tragic Poet in Pompeii.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 leaf).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155883263 View

American Philosophical Society Archives. Record Group IId, 1837-1844

Title: American Philosophical Society Archives. Record Group IId 1837-1844

This is part of the large inventory for the American Philosophical Society Archives. For complete information concerning this collection, please view the . Collection Description

ArchivalResource: 1.0 section

http://www.amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/APS.Archives.IId-ead.xml View

Frazer, John Fries, 1812-1872. Papers, 1834-1871.

Title: Papers, 1834-1871.

This collection consists principally of correspondence with Alexander Dallas Bache, Louis Agassiz, Joseph Henry, and Titian Ramsay Peale on general scientific topics, although personal and family matters were discussed with Bache. Topics discussed in the letters include the University of Pennsylvainia, boiler explosions, education, the National Academy of Sciences, the Smithsonian Institution, fossils, magnetism, solar eclipses, the American Philosophical Society, weights and measures, the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey, scientific instruments, American Civil War, electricity, the United States Mint, the Franklin Institute, scientists of the period, natural history, and publications.

ArchivalResource: ca. 650 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122523586 View

Coffin, James H. (James Henry), 1806-1873. James Henry Coffin Papers, 1848-1884

Title: James Henry Coffin Papers, 1848-1884

These papers consist of correspondence concerning temperature, wind, and weather reports of the Hudson Bay region, 1848; resolutions of condolence to Coffin's son, Seldon J. Coffin, from students and alumni of Lafayette College after Coffin's death, 1873; newspaper articles; an illustration of James H. Coffin; and the original manuscript of Winds of the Northern Hemisphere. Additional correspondence of James Henry Coffin exists elsewhere in the Smithsonian Institution Archives, especially in the Joseph Henry Collection, Record Unit 7001, and Meteorological Project Records, Record Unit 60.

ArchivalResource: 0.25 cu. ft. (1 half document box)

https://sova.si.edu/record/SIA.FARU7060 View

American Philosophical Society Archives. Record Group IIe. 1845-1865.

Title: Record Group IIe.

This is part of the large inventory for the American Philosophical Society Archives. For complete information concerning this collection, please view the Collection Description.

ArchivalResource: 1.0 section

http://www.amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/APS.Archives.IIe-ead.xml View