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BOX 2-5 REEL 5-9 Letterbooks, 1841-1863
Bound letterpress and handwritten copies of letters sent including official and private correspondence.
Arranged chronologically.
BOX 2 REEL 5-6 1841, May 17-1847, Dec. 30
1848, Nov. 22-1850, Feb. 16
1850, Feb. 16-1851, Jan. 17
BOX 3 REEL 6-7 1851, Jan. 18-1854, Dec. 9
1857, Jan. 16-Oct. 25
1857, Nov. 5-1859, Feb. 13
BOX 4 REEL 7-8 1859, Feb. 17-1861, Apr. 22
1862
May 12-22
July 18- Aug. 10
Aug. 10- Sept. 2
Sept. 6-22
BOX 5 REEL 8-9 Sept. 30- Nov. 30
1862, Nov. 11-1863, Jan. 2
1863
Jan. 3-Feb. 2
Feb. 2-26
Mar. 4-Apr. 4
Apr. 4-May 12
May 12-27
May 21- June 18
June 18
BOX 6-12 REEL 9-14 Family Correspondence, 1836-1915
Predominantly letters exchanged between members of the Wilkes family.
Arranged chronologically.
BOX 6 REEL 9-10 1836, Oct.-1850, July
(13 folders)
BOX 7 REEL 10-11 Aug. 1850-May 1853
(10 folders)
BOX 8 REEL 11 1853, June-1855, Dec.
(10 folders)
BOX 9 REEL 12 1856, Jan.-1858, Aug.
(12 folders)
BOX 10 REEL 12-13 1858, Sept.-1862, Oct.
(14 folders)
BOX 11 REEL 13 1863, Jan.-1867, Oct.; 1887, May
(12 folders)
BOX 12 REEL 14 1895, July-1915, Oct.
(7 folders)
Undated
(3 folders)
BOX 13-16 REEL 14-17 General Correspondence, 1835-1876
Letters received and sent.
Arranged chronologically.
BOX 13 REEL 14-15 1835-1856
(22 folders)
BOX 14 REEL 15-16 1857-1862
(22 folders)
BOX 15 REEL 16 1863-1870
(10 folders)
BOX 16 REEL 17 1871-1876, undated
(6 folders)
Fragments, undated
BOX 17-19 REEL 17-18 Official Correspondence, 1862-1863
Letters sent to and from the Navy Department, the secretary of the navy, and the Army Department.
Arranged chronologically.
BOX 17 1862, July 6-Dec. 18
(8 folders)
BOX 18 REEL 17-18 1862, Dec. 19-1863, May 11
(7 folders)
BOX 19 REEL 18 1863, May 12-July 30, undated
(4 folders)
BOX 20-21 REEL 18-19 Expedition File, 1828-1863, 1940
Correspondence, drafts of a narrative of the expedition, maps, notebooks, computation tables, lists, reports, and printed matter.
Arranged alphabetically by type of material.
BOX 20 REEL 18-19 Correspondence, 1940
Maps, Antarctica and Hawaii See also Oversize
Narrative, 1838
Bound volume
Shortened copy
Notebooks
Use of astronomical instruments, [1828?]
"Instructions to New Officers on Methods of Surveying Used in the Expedition," 1858
Observations
Weather and tidal observations, 1839
BOX 21 REEL 19 Journal of tides, air, and water observations, 1839-1840
General, 1841
Columbia River, undated
Pendulum on Mauna Loa, computations, 1841
Publications
Correspondence on publications concerning the expedition, 1842-1862
Zoology, by Titian Ramsay Peale, introduction to, 1846-1848
Reports
American Philosophical Society and the United States Naval Lyceum, 1836
Joint Committee on the Library, United States Congress, 1858-1859
Soo Loo agreement, 1842
Surveys, original list of islands discovered and surveyed for the first time, undated
Naval hearings, charges and defense of Wilkes, 1842, 1847
Miscellany, 1861-1863, undated
BOX 22-25 REEL 20-24 Autobiography and Other Writings, 1855-1877
Autobiography, essays and sketches by Wilkes.
Arranged by type of material.
BOX 22 REEL 20-21 Autobiography
Draft
Vols. 1-8
(4 folders)
BOX 23 REEL 22-23 Vols. 9-10
Typescript
pp. 1-300
(3 folders)
BOX 24 REEL 23 pp. 301-882
(6 folders)
Essays and sketches
Report on the examination of the Deep River District, North Carolina, 1858
(2 folders)
"Theory of the Winds," 1855
(2 folders)
BOX 25 REEL 24 "On the Circulation of the Oceans," 1859
"Visit to Tunis" and "The Housewife," 1859
"The Student's Lamp," "In Turn," and "Christmas Story," 1859
"On Postal Arrangements," "How I Was Cured of Going to Fires," and "Sketches of Biography," 1859
"Some Days in the Session," 1877
"Reasons for Taking the Vanderbilt Under Command," 1863
"A Diary From the South Sea Islands," undated
Description of a trip through the Midwest, undated
BOX 26-27 REEL 24 Financial and Business Papers, 1833-1876
Maps, drawings, reports, account books, copyrights, deeds, and miscellaneous material relating to property rights.
Arranged by type of material.
BOX 26 REEL 24 Maps and papers relating to the Dauphine and Susquehanna Coal Co., undated
Drawings of blast furnaces, scales, and coal kilns, undated
Map indicating Wilkes property in Washington, D.C., undated
Report on the High Shoals property in Gaston County, N.C., undated
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