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Columbia University Libraries, Rare Book & Ms. Lib.. National Institute Of Letters, Arts, & Sciences.

Title: Columbia University Libraries, Rare Book & Ms. Lib.. National Institute Of Letters, Arts, & Sciences.

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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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Whitney, William Dwight, 1827-1894. William Dwight Whitney family papers, 1778-1951 (inclusive), 1814-1912 (bulk).

Title: William Dwight Whitney family papers, 1778-1951 (inclusive), 1814-1912 (bulk).

The papers consist of correspondence, journals and diaries, writings, legal and financial papers, and miscellanea of the William Dwight Whitney family, including William Dwight Whitney (1827-1894), his wife Elizabeth Wooster Baldwin Whitney (1824-1912), his brother Josiah Dwight Whitney (1819-1896), and his father Josiah Dwight Whitney (1786-1869). William Dwight Whitney material includes several hundred letters with his wife, journals and diaries (1843-1893), and a small quanity of professional papers. Material of his brother Josiah includes a geological survey of the Upper Mississippi (1862), and correspondence relating to the first systematic exploration and mapping of the American West. Information relating to Benjamin Silliman and the National Academy of Sciences is also documented. His family correspondence includes several hundred letters with William Dwight Whitney and their father, Josiah.

ArchivalResource: 25.5 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/702153614 View

William Dwight Whitney family papers, 1778-1951, 1814-1912

Title: William Dwight Whitney family papers 1778-1951 1814-1912

The papers consist of correspondence, journals and diaries, writings, legal and financial papers, and miscellanea of the William Dwight Whitney family, including William Dwight Whitney (1827-1894), his wife Elizabeth Wooster Baldwin Whitney (1824-1912), his brother Josiah Dwight Whitney (1819-1896), and his father Josiah Dwight Whitney (1786-1869). William Dwight Whitney material includes several hundred letters with his wife, journals and diaries (1843-1893), and a small quanity of professional papers. Material of his brother Josiah includes a geological survey of the Upper Mississippi (1862), and correspondence relating to the first systematic exploration and mapping of the American West. Information relating to Benjamin Silliman and the National Academy of Sciences is also documented. His family correspondence includes several hundred letters with William Dwight Whitney and their father, Josiah.

ArchivalResource: 25.5 linear feet (57 boxes, 1 folio)

http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/mssa.ms.0555 View

Joy, Eleanor, 1868-1936. Eleanor Joy papers, 1882-1891.

Title: Eleanor Joy papers, 1882-1891.

Eleven diaries which reveal a sensitive and perceptive young woman. With her family, she traveled extensively in England, the United States, and most countries of the Continent. Her diaries describe her reactions to foreign scenes and places, and contain numerous references to her father and to her visit to Columbia University early in 1889. Also, a typewritten description of the diaries of Eleanor Joy's son, Sir Douglas Busk; and a copy of THE ANCESTORS OF PATRICK AND PERONELLE KINNEL, compiled by Sir Douglas Busk in 1970.

ArchivalResource: 1 box.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/506124058 View

Weather Bureau

Title: Weather Bureau

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https://catalog.archives.gov/id/356 View

Whitney, William Dwight, 1827-1894. William Dwight Whitney family papers, 1778-1951 (inclusive), 1814-1912 (bulk).

Title: William Dwight Whitney family papers, 1778-1951 (inclusive), 1814-1912 (bulk).

The papers consist of correspondence, journals and diaries, writings, legal and financial papers, and miscellanea of the William Dwight Whitney family, including William Dwight Whitney (1827-1894), his wife Elizabeth Wooster Baldwin Whitney (1824-1912), his brother Josiah Dwight Whitney (1819-1896), and his father Josiah Dwight Whitney (1786-1869). William Dwight Whitney material includes several hundred letters with his wife, journals and diaries (1843-1893), and a small quanity of professional papers. Material of his brother Josiah includes a geological survey of the Upper Mississippi (1862), and correspondence relating to the first systematic exploration and mapping of the American West. Information relating toBenjamin Silliman and the National Academy of Sciences is also documented. His family correspondence includes several hundred letters with William Dwight Whitney and their father, Josiah.

ArchivalResource: 25.5 linear ft. (57 boxes, 1 folio)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122501534 View

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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Joy, Charles,. Oral history interview, 1969.

Title: Oral history interview, 1969.

Interview, with brief catalog and transcript, from Ellsworth and Veazie, Me., area, with Joy and Matha Davis, relating to the life of woodsmen and river driver, Dingbat Prouty.

ArchivalResource: 1 audiotape (1/4 hr.)

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Smithsonian Archives. Spencer F. Baird Papers (Mc 2000.11).

Title: Smithsonian Archives. Spencer F. Baird Papers (Mc 2000.11).

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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)

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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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Autograph File, C

Title: Autograph File, C

The Autograph File is an alphabetically arranged collection of single letters, manuscripts, and drawings received from various sources at various times. Additions continue to be made.

ArchivalResource: 14.5 linear feet (29 boxes)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01426/catalog View

Bulfinch, Thomas, 1728-1802. Documents : for a reparation claim : manuscript, 1783.

Title: Documents : for a reparation claim : manuscript, 1783.

Documents relating to the seizure, on Dec. 14, 1775, of goods from an apothecary shop run by Peter Roberts and owned by Bulfinch, at the order of General William Howe for the use of the British General Hospital. The volume contains Bulfinch's power of attorney; affidavits by Kneeland, Hoffains, and Joy; a notarized copy of the minutes of a Boston town meeting; a notarized copy of a letter to Bulfinch from M. Morris; and a document signed by Hancock with the state seal testifying to the legitimacy of Quincy and Price as justices.

ArchivalResource: 1 v. (9 leaves) ; 39 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/612789770 View

Royal Institution (Great Britain). John Tyndall Papers.

Title: Royal Institution (Great Britain). John Tyndall Papers.

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Thomas Raynesford Lounsbury papers, 1829-1915

Title: Thomas Raynesford Lounsbury papers 1829-1915

The papers consist of correspondence, diaries, writings, research, notes, scrapbooks, and other materials documenting Lounsbury's personal life and professional career as an author and educator of English literature at Yale University. Correspondence with Yale colleagues, students, authors, and officials details his academic and literary interests, and activity in the areas of international language and simplified spelling. Personal materials include letters relating to Lounsbury's Civil War experiences and diaries containing brief entries from 1856-1915.

ArchivalResource: 20 linear feet (51 boxes)

http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/mssa.ms.1231 View

Joy, Charles A., 1823-1891. Letter, 1869.

Title: Letter, 1869.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 leaf).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/63644919 View

Lounsbury, Thomas Raynesford, 1838-1915. Thomas Raynesford Lounsbury papers, 1829-1915 (inclusive), 1856-1915 (bulk).

Title: Thomas Raynesford Lounsbury papers, 1829-1915 (inclusive), 1856-1915 (bulk).

The papers consist of correspondence, diaries, writings, research, notes, scrapbooks, and other materials documenting Lounsbury's personal life and professional career as an author and educator of English literature at Yale University. Correspondence with Yale colleagues, students, authors, and officials details his academic and literary interests, and activity in the areas of international language and simplified spelling. Personal materials include letters relating to Lounsbury's Civil War experiences and diaries containing brief entries from 1856-1915.

ArchivalResource: 20 linear ft. (51 boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/702153829 View

National Institute of Letters, Arts, and Science. Records, 1868-1869.

Title: Records, 1868-1869.

This collection of about 80 items relates to the founding and activities of the society and includes a printed constitution of the organizational list of charter members, some miscellaneous notes and memoranda, and a group of letter from various people addressed principally to Charles A. Joy. The letters deal mostly with attendance at meetings.

ArchivalResource: 80 items (1 file box)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122453569 View

Smithsonian Archives. Ru 60: Meteorological Project, 1849 1875.

Title: Smithsonian Archives. Ru 60: Meteorological Project, 1849 1875.

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Joy, Charles. ALS, 1838 August 12, East Boston, [Mass.] to W. Swift / Chas. Joy.

Title: ALS, 1838 August 12, East Boston, [Mass.] to W. Swift / Chas. Joy.

Economic stall because of "Jackson and Van Buren experiments." Geographic plan of East Boston and description of hotel in which he is staying. Family news and health.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (3 p.) ; 25 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/37209257 View