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Seven autograph drafts of letters, in French, from Deluc to Joseph J. LeFrançois de Lalande, plus an undated autograph document containing instructions for changes and corrections to some engraved plates illustrating a work on the barometer, from Geneva. The drafts of letters are heavily revised. The first two letters concern the 1761 transit of Venus across the face of the sun.
mssHM 82905
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A letter from L. C. Green, a New Yorker visiting Brazil, to a cousin named Amy Carpenter. This letter, probably written from Rio de Janeiro, provides considerable commentary about Brazilian scenery, social classes, slavery, and the impact of the substantial numbers of Americans who passed through Brazil on their way to the California Gold Rush.
mssHM 83455
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Letter by Thomson to fellow British physicist Gilbert Stead. The letter reads as follows "Dear Mr. Stead, It was a very great pleasure to me to receive your letter for I remember very well how much I owed to your help during the time I was on the Commission. I hope it will not be long before we meet again. Yours very sincerely, J. J. Thomson." The letter was written in Cambridge.
mssHM 80254
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Letter, written by J. J. Abbott to his friend and fellow teacher in Alabama, J. P. Carpenter. Abbott describes his journey to Mississippi, the city of Hudsonville, the school at which he is working, some school clubs that he founded, and his intent to attend Andover Theological Seminary in Massachusetts. Abbott also gives opinions about the South, slavery, and abolitionists.
mssHM 84005
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The letter from Jens Christian Bay to J. L. E. Dreyer mentions Tycho Brahe and references Bay's colleague at the John Crerar Library in Chicago, Frederick E. Brasch. The letter is in Danish and is addressed to "Hr. Direktor Dreier." It is probably related to the letter from Frederick E. Brasch to J. L. E. Dreyer dated 1917, September 19.
mssHM 83059
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This letter was written by Webb to United States Secretary of State William L. Marcy. Webb is trying to have a meeting with Marcy.
mssHM 79097