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Letterbooks, 1841-1863 (continued) | |||||||||||||
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 | |||||||||||||
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 | |||||||||||||
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