Manuscripts

Letter and manuscript of Carl Friedrich Gauss

Image not available

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,
Find out more: View in the Library catalog(Opens in new tab)

You might also be interested in

Image not available
Carl Friedrich Gauss Werke
Rare Books
483055
Image not available
Carl Friedrich Gauss Werke
Rare Books
751541
Image not available
Carl Friedrich Gauss Werke
Rare Books
702596
Image not available
Briefwechsel zwischen Carl Friedrich Gauss und Wolfgang Bolyai
Rare Books
489060
Image not available
Carl Friedrich Freiherr von Weizsäcker curriculum vitae
Manuscripts
This is a signed carbon typescript of Carl Friedrich Freiherr von Weizsäcker's curriculum vitae. The latest item on it is dated 1965.
mssHM 81238
Image not available
Manuscripts: Oversize: Kurylo, Friedrich and Susskind, Charles – Kurylo, Friedrich
Manuscripts
The bulk of the collection contains drafts, typescripts, and research materials compiled by Friedrich Kurylo pertaining to Ferdinand Braun for his book, Ferdinand Braun: A life of the Nobel prizewinner and inventor of the cathode-ray oscilloscope. The majority of the collection is in German.
mssKurylo Collection