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On Galileo and statics: speech

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Description: This talk was presented at the Galileo Quartercentenary Congress, Notre Dame University, April 9, 1964. It is about Galileo and statics. The typescript is signed "With the regards of R. J. Seeger."
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1964, April 9.
Call number: mssHM 79874
Creator: Seeger, Raymond John (1906-)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Burndy Library Collection, Gift of Dibner Family, November 2006.
Dimensions: 28 cm :

Charles Warren Stoddard poems and letters

Manuscripts

Volume of blank pages with two handwritten poems, "The Cocoa Tree" and "The parables of nature," by American writer Charles Warren Stoddard and three letters from Stoddard to American writer Edmund Clarence Stedman, his wife, Laura Woodworth Stedman, and their son Arthur Stedman tipped in (mssHM 24342-24345). The letter to Edmund Stedman is written around a small lithograph, "Bird's Eye View of the Notre Dame University, Notre Dame, Ind.", published by Shober & Carqueville Lith. Co. of Chicago.

mssHM 2541-2542

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The Poetry of Wallace Stevens: speech

Manuscripts

This manuscript is a typescript of a talk given by Professor Morgan Ward at Caltech's Athenaeum, February 16, 1960. It is about the American poet Wallace Stevens. The manuscript contains several handwritten edits.

mssHM 69429

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Reminiscences of early electrical development: speech

Manuscripts

This talk was given at the First Joint Meeting of the Utah Society of Engineers, American Institute of Electrical Engineers. The typescript also includes an introduction by fellow electrical engineer Paul P. Ashworth and 12 pages of illustrations (all electrical related). Accompanying the typescript is a photograph of the Olmsted Station Power House in Provo, Utah.

mssHM 79875

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Faraday's theory of static induction - a reappraisal: conference paper

Manuscripts

Typescript of conference paper written by David C. Gooding. Includes cover letter dated 1977, April 12 to M. D. Greenwood, librarian at the Burndy Library, in which Gooding writes that the paper, which Gooding read at the Winter meeting of the BSHS [British Society for the History of Science] at Chelsea College on 1977, January 8, was the first part of a longer, more detailed study of Faraday's Experimental Researches, slated for publication.

mssHM 83026-83027

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A History of the Ranchos Los Cerritos and Los Alamitos: manuscript

Manuscripts

Bill Wilden presented this paper to Dr. Becker April 18, 1968. It is a 22-page typed manuscript (plus 6 photograph pages). It is a history of Ranchos Los Cerritos and Los Alamitos. The manuscript contains handwritten corrections. The photographs are of people, farmers, cows, turkeys, horses, farm equipment, land, and buildings; the photographs are dated 1907 to 1921.

mssHM 82431

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John Adams speech to the King of England :

Manuscripts

Draft of John Adams's speech on the occasion of presenting of his letter of credence to George III on June 1, 1785. With a note by James G. Palfrey dated January 7, 1854, attesting that the manuscript "was given to me on this day by his grandson, Charles Francis Adams." Includes engraved portrait of John Adams, approximately 1830-1833; "drawn & printed by Childs & Inman, Philadelphia" and "Pub'd by Peabody & Co., New York." Speech is hinged to mounting paper; bound in full green Morocco; gilt stamped cover and spine. Cover title: "John Adams. Holograph Manuscript of his Speech on Being Presented to the King of England as American Ambassador. 1785." Spine title: "John Adams. Original Manuscript."

mssHM 783

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