Number of Images: 5 ; Color: Color ; Size: 7 3/4w x 12 1/4h ; Type of Image: Document ; Medium: Paper
Type:
Document
Paper
Date:
May 1, 1868
Category:
Historic Images of the Smithsonian
Notes:
The accompanying PDF contains SIA2011-2788, SIA2011-2789, SIA2011-2790, SIA2011-2791, which are pages scanned from the edited transcript of the original version and notes in the Joseph Henry Papers Volume 11, pages 184-187 (Document 88).
This document is a draft written by William Jones Rhees, a clerk at the Smithsonian Institution.
Summary:
Letter from Joseph Henry, first Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, and Salmon Portland Chase, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court and Smithsonian Institution Regent, to the United States Congress, May 1, 1868. In the letter, Henry and Chase request that the United States National Museum holdings be removed from Smithsonian responsibility.
Contained within:
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 7081, Box 10, Folder: Estimates for Appropriations by Congress - 1
Rothenberg, Marc, et al, eds., The Papers of Joseph Henry, Volume 11, The Smithsonian Years: January 1866-May 1878 (Smithsonian Institution in association with Science History Publications/USA, 2007), 184-187
