Number of Images: 2 ; Color: Black and White ; Size: 7w x 10h ; Type of Image: Document ; Medium: Paper
Type:
Document
Paper
Place:
Wisconsin
Date:
May 5, 1854
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 9, pages 63-64 (Document 24).
Summary:
Letter from Joseph Henry, first Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, to Lyman Copeland Draper, Secretary of the Wisconsin Historical Society, May 5, 1854. In the letter, Henry agrees to receive Wisconsin legal documents, journals, and reports for the Smithsonian Institution's Library Collection.
Contained within:
Rothenberg, Marc, et al, eds., The Papers of Joseph Henry, Volume 9, The Smithsonian Years: January 1854-December 1857 (Smithsonian Institution in association with Science History Publications/USA, 2002), 63-64
