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Rare Books
Commemoration of the life and work of Alexander Dallas Bache and Symposium on geomagnetism
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Rare Books
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Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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Manuscripts
Chiefly letters addressed to Bache relating to Girard College, including Bache's presidency and his tour of Britain and the Continent preparatory to formulating a plan for this institution; the United States Coast Survey, chiefly concerning the personnel; Bache's scientific interests, particularly in the field of terrestrial magnetism; establishment of scientific institutions and departments of science, interest in and support of expeditions, including Commodore Perry's 1853 expedition to Japan, Elisha Kent Kane's expedition to northwestern Greenland (1853-1855), and Arctic expeditions of Isaac Israel Hayes; correspondence with American and European colleagues.
mssRH Boxes 12-35
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Manuscripts
New York. A copy; originally enclosed in: Francis Lieber to Charles Sumner, Dec. 14, 1861.
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Manuscripts
A collection of approximately 6000 items from 1815 to 1936, the collection consists of Francis Lieber's correspondence, notes and other manuscripts and published materials accumulated in the preparation of his works during his political and academic career. The collection contains articles, essays, remarks, correspondence, volumes, commonplace books, research files, printed material, and ephemera. The manuscript material often contains various drafts, with supporting research and subject files; the correspondence contains personal and family letters and a large amount of professional correspondence. Correspondents include, among others, his wife Matilda (Mathilde) Lieber, other Lieber family members, Samuel Austin Allibone, Edward Bates, Dorothea Lynde Dix, Hamilton Fish, James A. Garfield, Ulysses S. Grant, Simon Greenleaf, Henry Wager Halleck, George Stillman Hillard, ⁹douard Laboulaye, Carl Joseph Anton Mittermaier, Charles Sumner, Martin Russell Thayer, Alexis de Tocqueville, and Theodore Dwight Woolsey. Subjects in the collection include political science and theory; constitutional history; political economy; international law; philosophy and history of civilization; penology, including Lieber's association with the prison reform movement; education, particularly college and university administration; United States and European politics; antebellum debates and campaigns; slavery and abolitionism; politics of the Civil War, including problems of the citizenship of African-Americans, immigrants, and former Confederates; constitutional powers of the President and Congress; Republican Party, especially its radical wing; military aspects of the Civil War as reflected in Lieber's correspondence with Halleck; reconstruction, including plans for codification of international law; and Lieber's service with the United States-Mexican Claims Commission.
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