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