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Manuscripts

Description

Arranged alphabetically by author, the manuscripts consist primarily of Edwin Hubble's writings. The majority of Hubble's own manuscripts deal with scientific subjects. They include some unpublished articles about Adriaan van Maanen's work and papers discussing the history, philosophy, and nature of science. Also among the Hubble manuscripts are many of his public lectures on such topics as astronomy, smog, war preparedness, and fly-fishing.

Grace Hubble was a faithful chronicler of Hubble's life during their marriage and after his death. In diaries and journals, she described daily happenings at home in San Marino, Calif., and vacations in Colorado, Arizona, the East Coast, Great Britain, and Europe. These diaries discuss the Hubbles' activities, friends, acquaintances, and people they met on their travels. After Hubble's death, Mrs. Hubble prepared rough biographical memoirs of her husband. Divided into topical chapters, the notes and short essays include transcripts of some early Hubble correspondence which is not available elsewhere in the collection. These journals and memoirs supplement the more public record of Hubble's life provided by his own papers.

Also included with the manuscripts are several articles and poems about Hubble, written by family, friends, and colleagues: Helen Hubble Lane, Susan Ertz, Aldous Leonard Huxley, Anita Loos, Milton Humason, Nicholas Ulrich Mayall, and Edward John Moreton Plunkett, 18th Baron Dunsany.

Type
Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date
1900-1989.
Call number
mssHUB 1-1098
Creator
Hubble, Edwin (1889-1953)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance
Gift of the estate of Grace Burke Hubble, 1980.
Associated people
Hubble, Grace Burke, (1889-1980.)
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