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Edwin A. Bowen papers

Description: A collection of material chiefly relating to Edwin A. Bowen's Civil War service and the 52nd Regiment's veterans' association. Included are a Civil War journal kept from November 1861 to February 29, 1864; regimental military records, including general and special orders, communications, dispatches, reports, muster rolls, and ordnance records; drafts and the fair copy of Bowen's "Historical Memoranda of the 52nd Regiment Illinois Infantry Volunteers," (1870s); and accounts of the Battle of Shiloh that Bowen submitted at the request of Shiloh Battlefield Commission (1895). Also included are Bowen's account of his service in New Mexico (1848), an article about slavery (approximately 1861), and the original manuscript, typescript and publication of his Pike's Peak journal (1859).
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1848-1895
Call number: mssBowenea
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1864-approximately 1895

Manuscripts

A collection of material chiefly relating to Edwin A. Bowen's Civil War service and the 52nd Regiment's veterans' association. Included are a Civil War journal kept from November 1861 to February 29, 1864; regimental military records, including general and special orders, communications, dispatches, reports, muster rolls, and ordnance records; drafts and the fair copy of Bowen's "Historical Memoranda of the 52nd Regiment Illinois Infantry Volunteers," (1870s); and accounts of the Battle of Shiloh that Bowen submitted at the request of Shiloh Battlefield Commission (1895). Also included are Bowen's account of his service in New Mexico (1848), an article about slavery (approximately 1861), and the original manuscript, typescript and publication of his Pike's Peak journal (1859).

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1848-1863

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Ira Sprague Bowen papers

Manuscripts

The collection consists primarily of Ira Sprague Bowen's correspondence files from his tenure as Director of the Carnegie Observatories (1945-1964), as well as other correspondence, manuscripts, scientific papers, photographs, reprints, and research materials. There is a significant amount of material related to the Mount Wilson and Palomar Observatories and the Carnegie Institution of Washington.

mssBowen, Ira papers

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Manuscripts and correspondence: A-Bowen (to A-H)

Manuscripts

The collection is composed of correspondence and literary manuscripts. All the manuscripts and over one hundred letters in the collection were penned by Bowen. The correspondence concerns publishing arrangements for Bowen's works in progress during the years 1944-1946, discussions of her writing and the writing of other authors, and references to her wartime writing for the British Council and other agencies.

mssHM 52741-53108

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Selim Edwin Woodworth papers

Manuscripts

A collection of approximately 1,600 items from 1834 to 1947, which consists of letters, manuscripts, documents, 28 photographs and three scrapbooks related to the life, family and career of Selim Edwin Woodworth (1815-1871). Subject matter includes Woodworth's service at sea: a journal kept aboard the ship "Margaret Oakley" from New York to the South Pacific from 1834 to 1835, the log of the ship "Ohio" in the Mediterranean from 1838 to 1839, and naval orders from the Civil War period. There are also San Francisco business papers of Selim and his brother, Frederick A. Woodworth and mining papers for the Blue Wing Quartz Mine in Calaveras County, California from 1860 to 1864. The collection also contains material related to his son Selim Edwin Woodworth (1857-1900) who rose to lieutenant in the U.S. Navy. There are commissions, orders from 1871 to 1899, and a journal of a voyage to Mexico and Peru from 1878 to 1879. There are a few letters from Selim Edwin Woodworth's father, the poet Samuel Woodworth.

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Manuscripts and correspondence: Bowen (to I-W) - British

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mssHM 52741-53108

Edwin A. Bowen papers

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