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Norton family. Letters received by the Norton family, 1830-1920

Title: Letters received by the Norton family, 1830-1920

Letters from various persons to the family members of Charles Eliot Norton, including his mother, wife, sisters, and his children and their spouses.

ArchivalResource: 6 boxes (2.5 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00128/catalog View

Portraits of University of California individuals and groups, ca. 1850-[ongoing]

Title: Portraits of University of California individuals and groups, ca. 1850-[ongoing]

The collection consists of identified individuals and groups connected to the University of California, primarily from the Berkeley campus and the system-wide administration.

ArchivalResource: Ca. 4500 items

http://www.oac.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/kt438nc76z View

Holden, Edward Singleton, 1846-1914. Edward S. Holden letters to S.S. McClure [manuscript], 1886-1891.

Title: Edward S. Holden letters to S.S. McClure [manuscript], 1886-1891.

Holden agrees to write a series of scientific articles on astronomical subjects. He asks who else will be doing articles, how many hundres of words per article, and the price. He will write on his work at the Lick Observatory and on solar eclipses including the California eclipse of 1889. In addition he asks for the correct address of Robert Louis Stevenson.

ArchivalResource: 3 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/703435521 View

Williams, Talcott, 1849-1928. Scrapbook of circulars, hand-bills, pamphlets, etc., collected at the Republican national convention of 1884 / by Talcott Williams, political editor of the Philadelphia press ; and some additions made by Prof. Edward S. Holden.

Title: Scrapbook of circulars, hand-bills, pamphlets, etc., collected at the Republican national convention of 1884 / by Talcott Williams, political editor of the Philadelphia press ; and some additions made by Prof. Edward S. Holden.

ArchivalResource: 1 v. ; 37 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/46593660 View

John Jay Chapman additional papers, 1888-1959.

Title: John Jay Chapman additional papers, 1888-1959.

Correspondence and compositions of American writer and reformer John Jay Chapman.

ArchivalResource: 3 boxes (1.2 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00318/catalog View

Records of the U.S. Naval Observatory. 1840 - 1971. Photographs and Drawings Relating to U.S. Navy Astronomical Expeditions

Title: Records of the U.S. Naval Observatory. 1840 - 1971. Photographs and Drawings Relating to U.S. Navy Astronomical Expeditions

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https://catalog.archives.gov/id/519829 View

Markham, Edwin, 1852-1940. Letter 1924 June 18, Staten Island, N.Y. [to] City Editor of the Examiner, [New York City] / Edwin Markham.

Title: Letter 1924 June 18, Staten Island, N.Y. [to] City Editor of the Examiner, [New York City] / Edwin Markham. 1924.

Markham is sending an advanced copy of an unpublished poem by Swedenborg for him to inspect. Markham see s him as the greatest scholar of the 18th century. Markham also reminds him that he is was the literary editor of the Hearst Newspaper. He discusses Swedenborg and refers to Edward Holden, Carlyle, Emerson Balzac, Browning, and James. At the bottom of the letter he refersto Mr. and Mrs. L. Brackett Bishop who erected a fine statue.

ArchivalResource: 1 p. 1 leaf ; 18-25 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/45123645 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

Mary Hallock Foote Papers, 1863-1924 (inclusive), 1868-1916 (bulk)

Title: Mary Hallock Foote Papers, 1863-1924 (inclusive), 1868-1916 (bulk)

Correspondence with Helena Gilder, spanning their friendship of fifty years (1868-1916), and with other friends, family, and business associates. Also includes typed copy of Foote's work entitled, "Reminiscences".

ArchivalResource: 6 linear ft.

http://www.oac.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/tf2v19n619 View

Holden, Edward Singleton, 1846-1914. Autograph letter signed : Mount Hamilton, California, to the Art Editor of "Harper's Magazine", 1891 Dec. 19.

Title: Autograph letter signed : Mount Hamilton, California, to the Art Editor of "Harper's Magazine", 1891 Dec. 19.

Concerning photographs of the moon.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 p.) ; (8vo)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/270469962 View

Anita Newcomb McGee Papers, 1688-1932, (bulk 1869-1932)

Title: Anita Newcomb McGee Papers 1688-1932 (bulk 1869-1932)

Anthropologist and physician. Correspondence, diaries, family papers, writings, scientific and medical data, and miscellaneous material pertaining to McGee's studies of communistic societies in the United States such as the Shakers and the Bethel and Oneida communities, to her duties as acting assistant surgeon, U.S. Army in the Spanish-American War; and to the formation of the Women's Anthropological Society of America. Contains family correspondence of McGee's grandfather, Charles A. Hassler, which includes a letter from James Madison, 1832.

ArchivalResource: 3,000 items; 12 containers plus 1 oversize; 5.1 linear feet

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms012124 View

Langley, S. P. (Samuel Pierpont), 1834-1906. S.P. Langley papers, 1866-1926.

Title: S.P. Langley papers, 1866-1926.

Scientific and professional correspondence, including letters from Alexander Agassiz, Edward E. Hale, Oliver W. Holmes, Kaiser Wilhelm II, Rudyard Kipling, Robert T. Lincoln, Samuel S. McClure, Herbert Spencer, and Gideon Welles.

ArchivalResource: .2 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/34420381 View

Farley, Joseph Person, 1839-1912. Papers.

Title: Papers. 1909-1910.

Brig. General, U.S. Army. Letters from Wash. D.C. to Edward S. Holden at West Point discussing possible publication of article on the Battle of San Juan Hill; Farley's typed 15 page manuscript on Battle of San Juan Hill with author's hand written corrections.

ArchivalResource: 8 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/7563730 View

Holden, Edward Singleton, 1846-1914. Papers.

Title: Papers. 1889-1895.

Two A.L.S. to Knight, and A.D.S. (1889 May 30), i.e. an information sheet concerning equipment, staff, and history of Lick Observatory.

ArchivalResource: 3 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/10257987 View

Eichhorn, Lothar von. [Correspondence regarding Prussian cavalry calls]

Title: [Correspondence regarding Prussian cavalry calls] 1905.

Correspondence, Oct-Nov 1905, with E.S. Holden discussing Eichhorn's research on the history of Prussian cavalry signals. Manuscript copies of music are included with correspondence.

ArchivalResource: 6 items + music.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/8605511 View

George Edward Woodberry papers concerning Edgar Allan Poe, 1829-1928.

Title: George Edward Woodberry papers concerning Edgar Allan Poe, 1829-1928.

Letters and papers assembled by scholar George Edward Woodberry, concerning the American poet Edgar Allan Poe.

ArchivalResource: 2 boxes (.75 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00220/catalog View

Chapman, John Jay, 1862-1933. Additional papers, 1841-1940

Title: John Jay Chapman additional papers, 1841-1940.

Chiefly correspondence between American essayist John Jay Chapman and family, friends, and associates.

ArchivalResource: 37 boxes (18.5 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00718/catalog View

Young, Charles A. (Charles Augustus), 1834-1908. Selected papers [microform], 1849-1908.

Title: Selected papers [microform], 1849-1908.

Correspondence and miscellaneous materials. Primarily in-coming letters of a professional, scientific, and personal nature documenting his career and interest in astronomy and solar eclipses. Topics include solar spectroscopy, solar eclipses, solar rotational velocity, and spectroscopic application to planetary observation. Miscellaneous materials include vitae, clippings, manuscripts, and obituaries. Correspondents include Edward E. Barnard, Seth C. Chandler, W.H.M. Christie, Alvin Clark, Agnes M. Clerke, Edwin B. Frost, B.A. Gould, Edward S. Holden, William Huggins, Norman Lockyer, Simon Newcomb, Edward C. Pickering, A. Cowper Ranyard, and Arthur Schuster.

ArchivalResource: 3 microfilm reels.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/82908055 View

Larned, C. W. (Charles William), 1850-1911. Papers.

Title: Papers. 1910.

Professor of Drawing, U.S. Military Academy. Letter to E.S. Holden enclosing memo on curriculum revision and minutes of the curriculum committee meetings; "Memorandum for the superintendent in re-revision of the course of instruction"; committee of revision of course minutes.

ArchivalResource: 3 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/8308352 View

Newcomb, Simon, 1835-1909. Papers of Simon Newcomb, 1854-1936 (bulk 1865-1909).

Title: Papers of Simon Newcomb, 1854-1936 (bulk 1865-1909).

Correspondence, diaries, commonplace books, drafts of speeches, articles, reviews, and books, financial papers, genealogical papers, charts, tables, computations, photos, and printed matter, chiefly 1865-1909, reflecting Newcomb's personal and family life, his work in mathematics and astronomy, his writing of articles for encyclopedias and other publications, and his work as president of the International Congress of Arts and Sciences. Principal correspondents include his wife, Mary Hassler Newcomb, Edward E. Bernard, Alexander Graham Bell, Lewis Boss, Sherburne W. Burnham, William W. Campbell, James McKeen Cattell, George Davidson, Sir David Gill, Daniel C. Gilman, Benjamin A. Gould, George E. Hale, Asaph Hall, George W. Hill, Edward S. Holden, Samuel P. Langley, Othniel C. Marsh, Benjamin Peirce, Edward C. Pickering, Thomas Jefferson Jackson See, Otto Struve, Charles D. Walcott, and Carroll D. Wright.

ArchivalResource: 46,000 items.147 containers, plus 6 oversize.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/81073508 View

Floyd, Richard S. Richard S. Floyd papers, [ca. 1876-1889].

Title: Richard S. Floyd papers, [ca. 1876-1889].

Letters written to and by Floyd, president of the James Lick Trust; accounts; some minutes of meetings, memoranda and reports of the Lick Trust; photographs, specifications and blueprints of Lick Observatory (some mounted in a scrapbook); clippings; legal papers in law suits to which Floyd was party. Correspondence relatese mainly to Floyd's private business affairs, the construction of the Lick Observatory and the purchase of its equipment, and the construction of other memorials designated in the Trust. Correspondents include Edward S. Holden, James E. Keeler, John Le Conte, Denis Kearney, Sherburne W. Burnham, Henry E. Mathews (secretary of the Trust) and Thomas E. Fraser (superintendant of construction for the Observatory). Included also: some correspondence of Milos Gopcevic, Floyd's son-in-law and heir, relating to business matters.

ArchivalResource: 5 boxes, 1 carton.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/26021229 View

Holden, Edward Singleton, 1846-1914. Key to classification of library of U.S. Naval Observatory.

Title: Key to classification of library of U.S. Naval Observatory. [between 1873 and 1879?]

ArchivalResource: [30] leaves ; 29 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/40348821 View

Lick Observatory. Records, 1873-1966.

Title: Records, 1873-1966.

Early letters and diaries record the founding, building and equipping of the observatory. In 1876 Captain Floyd, President of the Lick Trust, spent a year in Europe visiting observatories, instrument makers, and astronomers. It was a critical time in the development of the reflecting telescope and the letters of David Gill, Howard Grubb, and William Huggins present the way of thinking of that perod. The correspondence of C. Feil, Alvan Clark, John Brashear, Ambrose Swasey, Simon Newcomb and others documents in detail the planning and construction of the 36-inch refractor. Includes the diary of Thomas E. Fraser (superintendent of construction) written while the Observatory was being built, and correspondence between Lewis Boss, George E. Hale, and W.W. Campbell (members of the Committee on Southern and Solar Observatories of the Carnegie Institution of Washington) and William J. Hussey, relating to their report of 1903. Includes correspondence of early directors of the observatory, E.S. Holden (Director, 1888-1897, 60 vols.); J.M. Schaeberle (Act. Director, 1897-1898, 3 vols.); J.E. Keeler (Director, 1898-1900, 6 vols.); W.W. Campbell, Director, 1900-1904). Also included in the early staff were Richard Tucker, Edward Barnard, and S.W. Burnham. Their letters record the pioneer work of the observatory, such as a meridian circle program, radial velocity work, and nebular photography. Tucker's letters also give. Interesting accounts of his nine years at the Argentine National Observatory at Cordoba and three years in charge of the Southern Station of the Carnegie Institution at San Luis. Continuing material includes correspondence of Directors Robert G. Aitken (1930-1935), William H. Wright (1935-1942), Joseph H. Moore (1942-1945), C. Donald Shane (1945-1958), and Albert E. Whitford (1958-1968).

ArchivalResource: 350 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/81933660 View

Henry and Mary Anna Palmer Draper papers, 1859-1914, 1869-1914

Title: Henry and Mary Anna Palmer Draper papers 1859-1914 1869-1914

Henry Draper (1837-1882), an American astronomer, was a pioneer in astronomical photography. Collection consists of Draper's correspondence, 1869-1882, with astronomers and others relating to astronomy, astronomical photography, spectroscopy, scientific work being carried out by Draper and his colleagues; and correspondence between Draper and his father, Dr. John William Draper. Also, page proofs of John William Draper's book History of the Conflict Between Religion and Science, photographs, sketches, diagrams, charts, certificates, medal, and printed matter. Bulk of the collection is correspondence, 1879-1914, of Mary Anna Palmer Draper dealing with her collection of antiquities, her husband's work and family matters; scrapbook of letters and writings; and artifacts.

ArchivalResource: 1.5 linear feet (8 boxes, 2 folders)

http://archives.nypl.org/mss/838 View

Lick Observatory. Copybook correspondence [microform] 1888-1993.

Title: Copybook correspondence [microform] 1888-1993.

Microfilm includes copybook transcriptions of letters by Observatory directors Edward Holden, John Schaeberle, James Keeler, and William Campbell, carbon copies of outgoing correspondence 1905-1993, and holograph incoming letters.

ArchivalResource: 48 reels.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/253854216 View