Author:

Lubbock, J. W (John William) 1803-1865  Search this

Author:

Chantrey, Francis Sir 1781-1841  Search this

Herschel, John F. W (John Frederick William) Sir 1792-1871  Search this

Kingsley, Charles 1819-1875  Search this

Burndy Library Manuscripts Collection (Smithsonian Libraries) DSI  Search this

University of Cambridge  Search this

Donor:

Dibner, Bern DSI  Search this

Burndy Library DSI  Search this

Physical description:

7 items

Type:

Manuscripts

Manuscripts (documents).)

Sources

Date:

1832

1832-1860

Notes:

Smithsonian Institution Libraries. Manuscripts of the Dibner collection, 700

Collected by Bern Dibner for his Burndy Library in Norwalk, Connecticut, founded in 1941. Donated to the Smithsonian Libraries in 1974 by Dibner DSI

Summary:

Six autograph letters signed to various correspondents including Herschel and Kingsley, 2 zincographs concerning a Cambridge University election, and an autograph fragment with signature to the executors of Chantrey

Topic:

Science--History  Search this

Technology--History  Search this

History  Search this

Science  Search this

Technology  Search this

Call number:

MSS 000928 A

Data Source:

Smithsonian Libraries

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:siris_sil_177796