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John Tyndall letters

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Description: The letters are written to various people (two of which are not identified) and deal with trivial matters as well as science, and Tyndall's writing of a autobiography or a scientific article for the Youth's Companion. The note is written on stationary from "Elton Hall."
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1873-1891.
Call number: mssHM 75992-75998
Creator: Tyndall, John (1820-1893)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Burndy Library Collection, Gift of Dibner Family, November 2006.
Associated organization: Burndy Library,

John Tyndall notebook

Manuscripts

This notebook contains 79 pages of various notes by John Tyndall. The majority of the notes deal with physics and he talks about several other physicists including Michael Faraday.

mssHM 72084

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John Tyndall notebook

Manuscripts

The notebook contains two catalogues of Tyndall's books, listed alphabetically by author, and several pages of miscellaneous notes.

mssHM 72507

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The practise of prelates : compyled by the faythfull and godly learnid man Wylliam Tyndall... : manuscript

Manuscripts

This manuscript copy of Tyndale's 1530 work, was written in England and is in an unknown hand; it was copied from a mnuscript "written out in anno 1565 by my brother Wm W" from the 1548 printing at London by Antony Scoloker and William Seres. The names "Cranmer Kerrick" and "H.K. Bowney 1807" are written on the first flyleaf and tipped into the front is a 3-page extract of a letter from Archdeacon Bowney (of Northamptonshire) to W.N. Cartwright (1843, Oct. 16) and a compliments slip from Bowney to Cartwright (1843, Oct. 17) is laid in as well. The volume is bound in brown sprinkled calf with gilt border (18th century); it is rebacked and repaired at corners but the spine has significant damage and covers are loose.

mssHM 26342

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John Tyndall : [a biographical sketch]

Manuscripts

Papers and correspondence of John Fiske. Included are manuscripts and proof sheets of his books, articles, lectures and other works on history, theology, and education, his literary works, musical compositions, and some documents. The professional and personal correspondence includes letters from Fiske to his wife Abby Morgan Fiske, mother Mary Fiske Bound Green Stoughton, Henry Holt, Henry A. Richmond, James Grant Wilson, and others. There are also letters to Fiske's step-father E. W. Stoughton. Some of the volumes have the bookplates of William Bixby and William F. Gable.

HM 18885

Diary and autobiography of John Clark Dowdle [microform] : approximately 1845-1894

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Microfilm of an autobiography and diary kept by John Clark Dowdle and identified as Nampa, Idaho. The autobiography begins in approximately 1845, and in a mix of reminiscences and diary entries describes Dowdle's family background, traveling overland in 1852, an 1864 trip to California, his mission to aid emigrants traveling overland from Missouri in 1866, and his daily activities in Utah, including school supervision in and around Logan and Willard, through 1894.

MSS MFilm 00122

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August F. W. Partz letter to C. Elton Buck

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A wide-ranging letter from August F. W. Partz to his business partner C. Elton Buck. This letter begins with his efforts to gain control over a massive mercury mine near New Idria, CA, what he describes as "the biggest quicksilver property in the world." He goes on to describe a new desulphurizing process, a variety of negotiations for the purchase of gold mines, plans for a stamp mill at Blind Springs, and a wealth of other mining topics. This is not a Gold Rush letter from a humble prospector, but rather from an industrialist thinking on a large scale. With a full typed transcript. Written in San Francisco; with numerous editorial marks and revisions.

mssHM 82585

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