Number of Images: 2 ; Color: Color ; Size: 8w x 10 1/2h ; Type of Image: Document ; Medium: Paper
Type:
Document
Paper
Place:
New York
Pittsburgh (Pa.)
Date:
September 7, 1853
Category:
Historic Images of the Smithsonian
Notes:
The accompanying PDF contains SIA2012-1007, SIA2012-1008, and SIA2012-1009, which are pages scanned from the edited transcript of the original version and notes in the Joseph Henry Papers Volume 8, pages 475-477 (Document 286).
This document is a typed copy of the original made by Mary Henry.
Summary:
Letter from Joseph Henry, first Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, to his close friend Alexander Dallas Bache, a physicist and Smithsonian Institution Regent, September 7, 1853. In the letter, Henry describes trips to New York and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and the possibility of him returning to Princeton, New Jersey, where he had been a professor before accepting the secretaryship of the Smithsonian.
Contained within:
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 7001, Box 11, Folder: 13 - July - December 1853
Rothenberg, Marc, et al, eds., The Papers of Joseph Henry, Volume 8, The Smithsonian Years: January 1850-December 1853 (Washington: Smithsonian Institution, 1998), 475-477
