Herbert McLean Evans letters to Bern Dibner | Collections | The Huntington

Herbert McLean Evans letters to Bern Dibner | Collections | The Huntington

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Cecil B. DeMille letter to Bern Dibner
Manuscripts
The letter by DeMille to Bern Dibner thanks Dibner for a copy of Dibner's book, Moving the Obelisks, and refers to the raising of the obelisk for the film, the Ten Commandments. The letter is signed by DeMille.
mssHM 83067
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Sydney Ross typescripts and letter to Bern Dibner
Manuscripts
Six typescripts, one periodical with an article, and one letter written by Sydney Ross and sent to Bern Dibner. The collection contains three versions of Faraday Consults the Scholars, a lecture given by Ross at the Burndy Library in 1957; HM 83202 and HM 83202 a typescript versions of the talk from 1957 and 1960, and HM 83204 is a typescript of the author's prepublication edition of Faraday Consults the Scholars: The Origin of the Terms of Electrochemistry. Materials also include a typed letter from Ross to Bern Dibner dated 1958, December 9; three typescripts by Ross on various topics in the history of science; and an issue of Rensselaer Research, Summer, 1958, with an article by Ross.
mssHM 83202-83209
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Gordon D. Friedlander letter to Bern Dibner, with essay
Manuscripts
Letter written by Gordon D. Friedlander to Bern Dibner, plus accompanying essay. The one-page typed letter requests that Dibner review an enclosed essay on André-Marie Ampère for publication in the IEEE Spectrum. The enclosure is a copy of a 22-page typescript that has been corrected; the typescript includes illustrations and reproductions of handwritten letters.
mssHM 83024-83025
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Bertel Linder letter to Bern Dibner
Manuscripts
The letter by Linder to Bern Dibner relates to chemistry in Sweden, Swedish-German electrical engineer Dietrich Müller-Hillebrand and Swedish chemist Torbern Bergman. Also with the letter is a copy of a letter by Müller-Hillebrand to Linder (1964) as well as three manuscripts containing English translations of Bergman's and Swedish astronomer Bengt Ferner's work and letters.
mssHM 77765-77769
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Letters and ephemera of Herbert Hoover
Manuscripts
This small group of items includes seven letters by Herbert Hoover to four different addressees: Frederick A. Delano, Bern Dibner, George Zabriskie, and Mr. Hohnhaus (the only letter written while Hoover was President is the one to Delano). There is also a note by Delano regarding the letter he received from President Hoover. Most of the letters are about trivial matters such as Hoover thanking the person for some favor. Also in this small group of items are three signed printed speeches given by Herbert Hoover, including his inaugural address (1929), "This Crisis in American Life" (1948), and "The Inheritance of the Next Generation" (1961).
mssHM 75960-75970
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The electrical engineering profession in the past century: speech
Manuscripts
The paper by Morris D. Hooven was delivered at the Symposium on the Role of the Organized Profession, Centennial of Engineering, 1952, September 3, in Chicago, Illinois. Also includes typed letter from Hooven to Bern Dibner dated 1954, February 16, enclosing the typescript and praising Dibner's contributions to the history of engineering.
mssHM 83084