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Edgar Alexander Mearns papers, 1864-1918

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BOX 1 Family Correspondence, 1883-1910
Letters between Mearns and members of his family.
Arranged chronologically by month.
BOX 1 1883-1919, undated
BOX 2-9 General Correspondence, 1864-1918
Primarily letters received by Mearns, supplemented by occasional letters sent.
Arranged chronologically by month.
BOX 2 1864-1880
BOX 3 1881-1884
BOX 4 1885-1891
BOX 5 1892-1898
BOX 6 1899-1900
BOX 7 1901-1903
BOX 8 1904-1908
BOX 9 1909-1918
BOX 10-11 Military Correspondence, 1880-1911
Letters sent and received by Mearns concerning his military duties, supplemented by miscellaneous orders and records.
Arranged by type or topic.
BOX 10 Chronological, 1880-1908, undated
BOX 11 Contract surgeon, 1898-1900
BOX 11 Expense account, George M. Barbour, 1907
BOX 11 Information slips, Mearns, 1906
BOX 11 Military messages, 1898
BOX 11 Muster roll and payroll, 1893-1894
BOX 11 Military records, 1891-1894
BOX 11 Special orders, 1884-1911
BOX 11 Wittich, Willis, 1900
BOX 12-15 Special Correspondence, circa 1877-1916
Correspondence, related matter, and miscellaneous items concerning the Smithsonian African expedition of 1909.
Arranged by name of person or subject.
BOX 12 African expedition, 1908-1911, undated
BOX 13 Allen, J. A., 1877-1916
BOX 13 Anthony, A. W., 1886-1898
BOX 13 Botanical and ornithological, 1903-1907
BOX 14 Dunham, W. R., 1909
BOX 14 Earliest military history, 1882-1883
BOX 14 Hunting trip, 1887
BOX 14 Mule litter, description of, 1887-1888
BOX 14 Newport Hospital, 1899-1902
BOX 14 Permit to visit Bulls Island, S.C., 1911
BOX 14 Regarding International Boundary Commission
BOX 14 General
BOX 14 1890-1893
BOX 15 1893-1895
BOX 15 Mearns, Edgar Alexander
BOX 15 Correspondence, 1891-1893
BOX 15 Special orders, 1891-1895
BOX 15 Report of vital statistics, Department of Cuba, 1901
BOX 15 Scientific association, Philippine
BOX 15 Scientific information
BOX 15 Smithsonian African Expedition, 1909 See Container 12, African expedition
BOX 15 Zerega, Louis A. di
BOX 16-18 Miscellany, circa 1880-1916
Account book, reports, papers, articles, notices, lists, and printed matter.
Arranged alphabetically by subject or type of material, with newspaper clippings filed at the end.
BOX 16 Account books
BOX 16 Acknowledgments
BOX 16 Articles and poems by Mearns
BOX 16 Blank forms and instruction sheet, military
BOX 16 Blueprint of bridge
BOX 16 Calling cards
BOX 16 Cliff dwellings
BOX 16 District of Columbia Medical Society, notices
BOX 16 Entertainment
BOX 16 Inaugural thesis
BOX 16 Index to register of patients, International Boundary Commission, circa 1891-1894 See Oversize
BOX 16 Letterbooks, 1898 See Oversize
BOX 16 Linnaean Society
BOX 16 Dues receipts
BOX 16 Notices
BOX 16 Membership certificates
BOX 16 Meeting
BOX 16 Notebooks
BOX 16 Personnel returns
BOX 16 Printed matter
BOX 17 Printed matter
BOX 17 Purchase order books
BOX 17 Records
BOX 17 Reports
BOX 17 Scrapbook, Spanish-American War See Oversize
BOX 17 Supply and equipment lists
BOX 17 West China Religious Tract Society
BOX 18 Yellowstone National Park
BOX 18 Newspaper clippings, chiefly 1909 Smithsonian African expedition
BOX OV 1-OV 3 Oversize, circa 1891-1898
Oversize letterbook, scrapbook, and index to register of patients.
Arranged and described according to the series and container from which the items were removed.
BOX OV 1 Miscellany
BOX OV 1 Letterbooks, 1898 (Container 16)
BOX OV 2 Index to register of patients, International Boundary Commission, circa 1891-1894 (Container 16)
BOX OV 3 Scrapbook, Spanish-American War, 1898 (Container 17)

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