John James Audubon collection 1823-1898 1826-1840

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John James Audubon collection 1823-1898 1826-1840

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The collection contains autograph letters, signed, written by John James Audubon to his wife Lucy Green Bakewell Audubon and colleagues, one of his engraved visiting cards, and autograph manuscript writings by Audubon and fellow naturalists Thomas McCulloch, Thomas Nuttall, and John Kirk Townsend. Prominent among the letters is one of 4,000 words from Audubon to his wife, written from Edinburgh in 1826, in which he describes exhibitions of his drawings and various social events, with a transcription of a phrenologist's reading that he had received. Also included are an 1898 letter from ornithologist Leonard C. Sanford to Sarah Manning Sage, the wife of collector Dean Sage, and a letter from John Woodhouse Audubon, son of John James Audubon, to A. J. Crossman. Prominent among the writings are 118 essays published in Audubon's Ornithological Biography (1831-39), describing plates included in his major work The Birds of America (1827-38), and an annotated pencil drawing of a petrel. Much of the material in the collection was formerly owned by William Robertson Coe.

0.46 linear feet (2 boxes)

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Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 6348872

Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

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Havell, Robert, 1793-1878

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Townsend, John Kirk, 1809-1851

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Audubon, John James, 1785-1851

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Harlan, Richard, 1796-1843

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Audubon, Lucy Green Bakewell, 1788-1874

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Sanford, Leonard Cutler, 1868-1950

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Leonard Cutler Sanford (September 19, 1868, New Haven, Connecticut–d. December 7, 1950, Florida), American surgeon and amateur ornithologist who served as a trustee of the American Museum of Natural History for nearly thirty years and who was instrumental in building up its bird collections....

Coe, William Robertson, 1869-1955

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McCulloch, Thomas, 1776-1843

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Epithet: Major RAMC British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000688.0x00017d Thomas McCulloch was a Presbyterian minister, author, and educator. Born in Fereneze, Scotland, to Michael and Elizabeth McCulloch in 1776, he studied logic at Glasgow University (graduating in 1792) and then theology at the General Associate Synod in Whitburn. In 1799 he was ordained, assigned a presbytery in Stewarton, and married Isabella Wa...

Rozier, Jean Ferdinand, 1777-1864

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Nuttall, Thomas, 1786-1859

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Sage, Sarah Manning, 1841-1915

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