Title Page | Collection Summary | Biographical/Organizational Note | Scope and Content | Arrangement
Collection Summary
Title | Charles Wilkes papers, 1607-1959 |
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Span Dates | 1607-1959 |
Bulk Dates | (bulk 1841-1865) |
ID No. | MSS45716 |
Creator | Wilkes, Charles, 1798-1877 |
Size | 6,500 items |
Size | 45 containers plus 3 oversize plus 1 vault |
Size | 18 linear feet |
Size | 26 microfilm reels |
Language | Collection material in English |
Location | Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. |
Finding Aid Permalink | Cite or bookmark this finding aid as: https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms002005 |
LCCN Permalink | LC Catalog record: https://lccn.loc.gov/mm75045716 |
Summary | Naval officer and explorer. Official and family correspondence, journals and diaries, legal and financial papers, autobiography and other writings, and scientific notebooks relating to Wilkes's command of an expedition (1838-1842) to the Antarctic, Hawaii and various other Pacific islands, and the northwest coast of the United States; his capture of J. M. Mason and John Slidell in the Trent affair (1861); and his command of the James River Flotilla and West India Squadron during the Civil War. Includes legal and business papers of the Wilkes family in England. |