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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 | |||||||||||||
Account book, 1870 | |||||||||||||
Bills, checks, and receipts, 1850-1873 | |||||||||||||
(1 folder) | |||||||||||||
BOX 27 REEL 24 |
(3 folders) | ||||||||||||
Copyrights, deeds, and property rights, 1833-1876, undated | |||||||||||||
BOX 28-30 REEL 25-26 | Miscellany, 1817-1921 | ||||||||||||
A scrapbook, newspaper clippings, photographs, maps, sketches, naval registers, printed matter, and miscellaneous correspondence. Included are three letterbooks belonging to William Compton Bolton. | |||||||||||||
Arranged by subject or by type of material. | |||||||||||||
BOX 28 REEL 25 | Bills, letters, and notes relating to the United States Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands, 1867-1869 | ||||||||||||
Navy registers, 1828-1831, 1845 | |||||||||||||
Coast Survey, 1855 | |||||||||||||
Court-martial defense of Wilkes, 1864 | |||||||||||||
United States v. S.S. Peterhoff, 1864 | |||||||||||||
Maps and papers relating to Deep River District of North Carolina, 1851-1857, undated | |||||||||||||
Biographical sketches of Wilkes, 1912, undated | |||||||||||||
Trent affair, monographs, 1861-1865, undated See also Oversize | |||||||||||||
Winds and Currents of the Sea, by Matthew Fontaine Maury, 1851 | |||||||||||||
BOX 29 REEL 25-26 | Confederate money and bond, 1864 See Vault | ||||||||||||
Photographs, 1900, undated | |||||||||||||
Scrapbook, 1856-1913, undated | |||||||||||||
General, 1846-1921, undated | |||||||||||||
Newspaper clippings | |||||||||||||
(3 folders) | |||||||||||||
BOX 30 REEL 26 | Letterbooks of William Compton Bolton (formerly William Compton Bolton Finch) | ||||||||||||
1817, Dec. 11-1818, Dec. 9 | |||||||||||||
1823, Nov. 4-1824, May 11 | |||||||||||||
1839, June 13-1841, Mar. 9 | |||||||||||||
not filmed | Interest statements, lists, and receipts, 1870-1873, undated | ||||||||||||
BOX 31-45 REEL 26 | Family Papers and Genealogy, 1607-1959 | ||||||||||||
Documents predominantly of a business and legal nature including apprenticeship papers, bonds, deeds, marriage contracts, and mortgages relating to the Wilkes family in England and America. Also genealogical charts, a published genealogy, and an onomastic index to many of the family records in the papers. | |||||||||||||
Indexed family papers are arranged chronologically. | |||||||||||||
Containers 32-45 not filmed | |||||||||||||
BOX 31 REEL 26 | Agreements, appraisals, building estimates, debt records, letters, receipts, inventories, termination of trusts, 1669-1814 | ||||||||||||
Onomastic index, a partial index of the Wilkes family parchments and other family records contained in the papers, undated | |||||||||||||
Wilkes chronology, 1959 | |||||||||||||
Genealogical notes pertaining to the Wilkes family, typewritten copies, 1728-1869 | |||||||||||||
BOX 32not filmed | Indexed documents | ||||||||||||
Index, 1951 | |||||||||||||
Nos. 1-11, 1607-1616, 1635, 1644 | |||||||||||||
(12 folders) | |||||||||||||
BOX 33 | Nos. 12-25, 1646-1647, 1655-1667, 1679-1684 | ||||||||||||
(14 folders) | |||||||||||||
BOX 34 | Nos. 26-36, 1685, 1693-1698 | ||||||||||||
(11 folders) | |||||||||||||
BOX 35 | Nos. 37-46, 1701-1705 | ||||||||||||
(10 folders) | |||||||||||||
BOX 36 | Nos. 47-57, 1706-1710 | ||||||||||||
(11 folders) | |||||||||||||
BOX 37 | Nos. 58-64, 1714-1718 | ||||||||||||
(7 folders) | |||||||||||||
BOX 38 | Nos. 65-72, 1720-1727 | ||||||||||||
(8 folders) | |||||||||||||
BOX 39 | Nos. 73-79, 1728-1735 | ||||||||||||
(7 folders) | |||||||||||||
BOX 40 | Nos. 80-87, 1738-1745 | ||||||||||||
(9 folders) | |||||||||||||
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