Letter to Mr. Alger [manuscript], 1871January 25.

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Letter to Mr. Alger [manuscript], 1871January 25.

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Mitchell describes "the best picture of myself" reading to her father and agrees to ask the photographer, Black, to send one to the correspondent.

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Mitchell, Maria, 1818-1889

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Maria Mitchell, astronomer, was born on the island of Nantucket in 1818. Through her father, William Mitchell, she became interested in astronomy and assisted him in his observatory. In the late 1830s she was appointed librarian at the Nantucket Athenaeum, using its collection to educate herself while she worked with her father in the evenings. In 1847 she discovered a new comet, named for her, and was subsequently awarded a gold medal by the King of Denmark. A year later she became the first wo...

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