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Manuscripts
O -- Miscellaneous
- Description
Optical Society of America [includes orrespondence with their Journal as well and typed manuscript "The Registering Microphotometer of the Mount Wilson Observatory"] (28)
- Date
- 1920-1924
- Call number
- mssPettit papers
- Provenance
- Deposit; Observatories of the Carnegie Institution of Washington Collection, 1988.
- Restrictions
- According to a note in the papers, all personal correspondence of Edison Pettit (indicated in the contents list as "PETTIT PERSONAL") remains the property of the family and heirs of Edison Pettit. Before the personal property of Edison Pettit may be made available for public research, permission must be obtained from a family member. The Carnegie Observatories, as part of the 1987 letter of agreement, have given the Huntington Library the right to provide permission to publish from the remaining portion of the papers.
