Family letters and papers, 1829-1882 / compiled by Alfred G. Bailey. 1962.

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Family letters and papers, 1829-1882 / compiled by Alfred G. Bailey. 1962.

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Professor of chemistry, geology and mineralogy at the United States Military Academy, 1839-1857, and president of the American Association for Advancement of Science, 1857. Includes selected letters, 1837-1857, from Jacob Whitman Bailey, West Point, N.Y., to his brother, William Mason Bailey, other relatives and close friends; together with a series of Jacob Whitman Bailey's letters, 1829-1852, arranged with commentaries by his son, professor Loring Woart Bailey of the University of New Brunswick; as well as miscellaneous letters and papers, relating to the Bailey family of West Point, and the University of New Brunswick, a note on the Slaughter family of Culpeper, Virginia, and an address by Dr. A.A. Gould, delivered at the meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, August 19, 1857, on the death of professor Jacob Whitman Bailey.

397 leaves, bound ; 29 cm.

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United States Military Academy, USMA Library

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