Burndy Library Manuscripts Collection (Smithsonian Libraries) DSI Search this
Physical description:
75 items in 3 folders
Type:
Mixed archival materials
Manuscripts (documents).)
Sources
Date:
1840
1893
Notes:
Additional material in third folder
Smithsonian Institution Libraries. Manuscripts of the Dibner collection, 792
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:
Seventy-one autograph letters signed, two autograph envelopes, mostly on letterhead of the Royal Institution of Great Britain, one autograph signature with verse quotation from Emerson, and one ticket blank completed and signed. Various correspondents include Groom Napier, Hilgard, Hooker, Lewes (husband of George Eliot) l'Abbe [Moigno], Sir Roderick [Murchison], Playfair, Pollock, and possibly Wallace. In addition to social matters, topics include Eliot, Faraday on magno-electricity, Jones, Tyndall's declining the Edinburgh Chair of Natural Philosophy, thermometers, and experiments with magnetism and electricity