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Charles P. Steinmetz letters
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Manufacturing a legend: Charles Proteus Steinmetz as modern Jove: paper
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The manuscript is the typescript of a paper Kline read at the SHOT meeting in Toronto on October 17, 1980. The subject of the paper is the German-American mathematician and electrical engineer Charles Proteus Steinmetz. The original title was: Shaping the Profession of Electrical Engineering: The Career of Charles Proteus Steinmetz.
mssHM 76725
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Charles Fletcher Lummis letters
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HM 82390 - Letter by Charles Fletcher Lummis to Georgina Jones (Mrs. John Percival Jones - 1916, March 26) on The Southwest Society letterhead. With a printed poem by Lummis entitled "A Toast to the Absent" inscribed to Mrs. John Percival Jones (1916, March 22).
mssHM 82390-82391
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Charles Fletcher letters to James Gordon Bennett
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HM 4004 is a letter addressed to Mr. Bennett, editor of the New York Herald, imploring that the enclosed letter addressing the Oregon Question be published in the Herald. This letter is signed by Charles Fletcher. HM 4005 is the enclosed letter mentioned in HM 4004, and is signed "An American Citizen," and discusses a potential British claim to the Oregon Territory. Both letters are dated 1846, January 26. These manuscripts may be related to HM 4001-4003.
mssHM 4004-4005
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Letter and notes of Charles Lyell
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The letter by Lyell is to an unknown addressee ("Sir") and is dated 1866, October 15, and was written from London. In this letter he is talking about a new, 10th edition of his book Principles of geology that is going to be released soon. He also mentions his "amended climate theory." HM 79867.
mssHM 79867-79868
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Charles Fletcher Lummis letter to Herman Henry Kerckhoff
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Letter with rubber stamp signature on Southwest Society, Archaeological Institute of America letterhead to Herman Henry Kerckhoff, approving his membership in the Southwest Society and giving some background on the scope of the collections and remarking on famous members including President Theodore Roosevelt and Henry E. Huntington. Included is a 6 page list of members and a "Out West" cover with canceled stamp postmarked in Los Angeles on October 25.
mssHM 19815
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Charles Grafton Wilberton French letters to Nancy Manney
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Series of 11 letters from Charles Grafton Wilberton French to Nancy L. Manney written between 1885 and 1886, as well as three related items. The letters were written from Prescott, Arizona, and Washington, D.C., beginning in July 1885. They trace French's courtship and ultimate engagement to Nancy in 1886. In the first letter (HM 48772), French writes of the death of his wife and that "she knew all about my relations to yourself, long before her marriage to me." He then writes of their misunderstanding in the 1840s, noting that "when I left Beaufort I was convinced of your regard but I did not know how your family regarded the matter...there were many reasons for believing they did not regard it with satisfaction" (HM 48773). In October he wrote that he wanted to come to Beaufort so that "there should be no possibility of another mistake" (HM 48774), and by March 1886 they had become engaged and French wrote that "all that I am, all that I have, and all [that] I hope for in this life, I am ready now to devote to you" (HM 48779). Enclosed with HM 48778 is a photograph of French dated 1870. Also included with the correspondence is a letter from French to the postmaster of Beaufort asking if Nancy Manney is still at the same address (1885); a note from Nancy inquiring about a trunk (1886); and a photocopy of a marriage application for French and Nancy (1886).
mssHM 48772-48784