R. A. F. (Richard Alexander Fullerton) Penrose correspondence and papers, 1885-1931 1885-1931

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R. A. F. (Richard Alexander Fullerton) Penrose correspondence and papers, 1885-1931 1885-1931

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This correspondence is with Charles Francis Adams, Jr., Edgar Fahs Smith, and Thomas Sovereign Gates, about undergraduate days at Harvard College, his interest in Harvard, the University of Pennsylvania, and the Wistar Institute. The papers include a list of publications, biographical data, papers on Robert G. LeConte and Daniel Moreau Barringer, a certificate of membership in the Governor Thomas Dudley Family Association, and 25 drawings of crystals and 35 original sketches made to accompany his Harvard thesis, "The Nature and Origin of Deposits of Phosphate of Lime."

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