Robert Montgomery Smith Jackson papers, 1833-1865.

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Robert Montgomery Smith Jackson papers, 1833-1865.

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This collection of personal papers includes correspondence, geological field notes, maps, surveys, reports, military orders, pamphlets, clippings and photographs about Jackson's service in the First Geological Survey and as surgeon in the Sumner case (1856) and as a Civil War surgeon in Kentucky and Tennessee. Includes material for his book, The Mountain (1860), in which he write about establishing the Alleghany Mountain Health Institute. Correspondents includes Amos Bronson Alcott, Ralph Waldo Emerson, William Henry Furness, Theodore Parker, Charles Sumner and Henry David Thoreau.

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