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Michael Faraday letters

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Description: In these eight letters, Faraday discusses a variety of topics. The letters are very short and mostly talk about various appointments or happenings at the Institution. Only one addressee can be made out: Faraday's friend John Barlow.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1839-1865.
Call number: mssHM 77757-77764
Creator: Faraday, Michael (1791-1867)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Burndy Library Collection, Gift of Dibner Family, November 2006.
Associated people: Barlow, John, (1798 or 1799-1869,)

Michael Faraday letter to Charles Thornton Coathupe

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In this letter, Faraday is talking about some of the glass manufactured by Coathupe and some experiments. The letter was written from the Royal Institution in London.

mssHM 72758

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Michael Faraday founder of the electrical age : a letter written during his research into electricity at the Royal Institution London, England, April 25, 1834

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721715

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Sydney Ross typescripts and letter to Bern Dibner

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Six typescripts, one periodical with an article, and one letter written by Sydney Ross and sent to Bern Dibner. The collection contains three versions of Faraday Consults the Scholars, a lecture given by Ross at the Burndy Library in 1957; HM 83202 and HM 83202 a typescript versions of the talk from 1957 and 1960, and HM 83204 is a typescript of the author's prepublication edition of Faraday Consults the Scholars: The Origin of the Terms of Electrochemistry. Materials also include a typed letter from Ross to Bern Dibner dated 1958, December 9; three typescripts by Ross on various topics in the history of science; and an issue of Rensselaer Research, Summer, 1958, with an article by Ross.

mssHM 83202-83209

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William Hayes Hilton letter to "Friend Quackenbush,"

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In this letter to the otherwise unnamed "Friend Quackenbush," William Hayes Hilton writes of happenings at Rock Spring Drill in Silver Hill, and of his ongoing problems with the owning and operating company. Hilton appears to have or have had a position of authority in this company.

mssHM 31264

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Michael Davitt letters to an unknown woman

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These ten candid letters were written to a female correspondent whose name was systematically erased or obliterated from each, at her request. Written during the 1880s from Ireland, England (including Richmond Prison), and abroad, they concern Irish politics, journalism, his opinion of various public figures, his involvement with the Commission on Technical Education, and Richard Pigott's forged Parnell letters.

mssHM 60668-60677

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Jack London letters to Charles Warren Stoddard

Manuscripts

Jack London wrote these 14 letters to his good friend and fellow writer Charles Warren Stoddard from 1900 to 1906 (six are typed and eight are handwritten). London talks a lot about his writing projects and sends copies of his books to Stoddard (specifically The call of the wild, Sea wolf, and White fang) and often asks for his opinion. London also discusses the birth of his daughter Joan, his failing marriage, religion, traveling, and his ill health. The photograph of London is hand inscribed "To C. W. S. Affectionately yours, Jack London." There is also a copy of signed photograph of Jack London.

mssHM 80735-80748

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