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1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Manuscripts
Hans Christian Ørsted letter to Bern Dibner
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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
Copy of translation of Hans Christian Ørsted's autobiography sent by Robert C. Stauffer, an associate professor in the Department of the History of Science at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, to Bern Dibner. The translation, which is heavily marked up, is by Martha Trytten. Also includes a copy of a one-page undated letter from Trytten to Stauffer regarding the translation, and a one-page cover letter from Stauffer, who had initially requested the translation, to Bern Dibner, dated 1965, August 24.
mssHM 83087
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In this two-page letter to Dibner, Paynter comments on Dibner's recent series of articles published in the journal Electrical engineering. Paynter asks for Dibner's "interest and support in another project" involving the "origin and development of the now commonplace electric circuit symbols." The copies of his notes are for Paynter's class at MIT, "Analysis and design of engineering systems" (course 2.751). This is an incomplete copy.
mssHM 75974
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The letter by DeMille to Bern Dibner thanks Dibner for a copy of Dibner's book, Moving the Obelisks, and refers to the raising of the obelisk for the film, the Ten Commandments. The letter is signed by DeMille.
mssHM 83067
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Three letters written by Herbert McLean to Bern Dibner. In one letter, dated 1954, November 24, Evans proposes that Dibner print a catalogue of 289 works that Evans and his colleagues at the University of California-Berkeley Institute of Experimental Biology have deemed "the chief works or classics in the history of science." In a letter dated 1955, June 18, Evans mentions a shipment of Burndy Library duplicates. An undated letter is a social invitation to Dibner. Also included is a photograph of Bern Dibner and Herbert Evans, taken at Evans's home and dated November, 1952; the photograph includes a handwritten caption by Evans on verso dated 1952, November 16.
mssHM 82735-82738