Number of Images: 2 ; Color: Black and White ; Size: 7w x 10h ; Type of Image: Document ; Medium: Paper
Type:
Document
Paper
Place:
United States
Europe
New York (N.Y.)
Albany (N.Y.)
Date:
October 30, 1837
Category:
Historic Images of the Smithsonian
Notes:
2 pages scanned from the edited transcript of the original version and notes in the Joseph Henry Papers Volume 3, pages 514-515.
Summary:
Letter from Joseph Henry, then a professor at Princeton University and later first Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, to Harriet Henry, his wife, October 30, 1837. Henry writes from a steamboat transporting him from New York City to Albany, NY. He describes his journey back to the United States from England following his scientific meetings in Europe.
Contained within:
Reingold, Nathan, et al, eds., The Papers of Joseph Henry, Volume 3, The Princeton Years: January 1836-December 1837 (Washington: Smithsonian Institution, 1979), 514-515
