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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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Account book, 1870 |
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Bills, checks, and receipts,
1850-1873 |
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(1 folder) |
BOX 27
REEL 24 |
(3 folders) |
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Copyrights, deeds, and property
rights, 1833-1876, undated |
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BOX 28-30 REEL 25-26 |
Miscellany,
1817-1921
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A scrapbook, newspaper clippings, photographs, maps, sketches,
naval registers, printed matter, and miscellaneous correspondence. Included are
three letterbooks belonging to William Compton Bolton. |
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Arranged by subject or by type of material. |
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BOX 28 REEL 25 |
Bills, letters, and notes
relating to the United States Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands,
1867-1869 |
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Navy registers, 1828-1831,
1845 |
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Coast Survey, 1855 |
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Court-martial defense of Wilkes,
1864 |
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United
States v. S.S. Peterhoff, 1864 |
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Maps and papers relating to Deep
River District of North Carolina, 1851-1857, undated |
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Biographical sketches of Wilkes,
1912, undated |
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Trent affair, monographs, 1861-1865, undated
See also Oversize
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Winds and Currents of the Sea, by
Matthew Fontaine Maury, 1851 |
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BOX 29 REEL 25-26 |
Confederate money and bond, 1864
See Vault
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Photographs, 1900,
undated |
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Scrapbook, 1856-1913,
undated |
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General, 1846-1921,
undated |
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Newspaper clippings |
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(3 folders) |
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BOX 30 REEL 26 |
Letterbooks of William Compton
Bolton (formerly William Compton Bolton Finch) |
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1817, Dec. 11-1818, Dec.
9 |
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1823, Nov. 4-1824, May
11 |
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1839, June 13-1841, Mar.
9 |
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Interest statements, lists, and receipts, 1870-1873,
undated |
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BOX 31-45 REEL 26 |
Family Papers and
Genealogy,
1607-1959
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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. |
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Indexed family papers are arranged chronologically. |
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Containers 32-45 not filmed |
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BOX 31 REEL 26 |
Agreements, appraisals, building
estimates, debt records, letters, receipts, inventories, termination of trusts,
1669-1814 |
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Onomastic index, a partial index
of the Wilkes family parchments and other family records contained in the
papers, undated |
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Wilkes chronology,
1959 |
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Genealogical notes pertaining to
the Wilkes family, typewritten copies, 1728-1869 |
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BOX 32not filmed |
Indexed documents |
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Index, 1951 |
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Nos. 1-11, 1607-1616, 1635,
1644 |
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(12
folders) |
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BOX 33 |
Nos. 12-25, 1646-1647,
1655-1667, 1679-1684 |
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(14
folders) |
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BOX 34 |
Nos. 26-36, 1685, 1693-1698
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(11
folders) |
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BOX 35 |
Nos. 37-46,
1701-1705 |
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(10
folders) |
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BOX 36 |
Nos. 47-57,
1706-1710 |
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(11
folders) |
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BOX 37 |
Nos. 58-64,
1714-1718 |
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(7 folders)
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BOX 38 |
Nos. 65-72,
1720-1727 |
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(8
folders) |
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BOX 39 |
Nos. 73-79,
1728-1735 |
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(7 folders)
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BOX 40 |
Nos. 80-87,
1738-1745 |
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(9
folders) |
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BOX 41 |
Nos. 88-94,
1746-1747 |
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(7
folders) |
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BOX 42 |
Nos. 88-94,
1746-1747 |
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(7
folders) |
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BOX 43 |
Nos. 101-105,
1757-1760 |
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(5
folders) |
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BOX 44 |
Nos. 106-115, 1761-1771,
1784 |
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(10
folders) |
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BOX 45 |
Nos. 116-117,
1791-1792 |
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