Manuscripts

Letter and manuscript of Carl Friedrich Gauss

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Description: The letter, dated 1839, Dec. 31 from Göttingen, relates to items, some of which are worth hundreds of gold pieces, that Gauss is either selling, buying, or shipping to his son Charles William Gauss who lived in St. Louis and owned a retail dry goods store. The letter is incomplete and the addressee is unknown. In German. HM 77960.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1839-1842.
Call number: mssHM 77960-77961
Creator: Gauss, Carl Friedrich (1777-1855)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Burndy Library Collection, Gift of Dibner Family, November 2006.
Associated organization: Burndy Library,
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