| 1. | Title: | Andre Michaux Journals (1787-1796) | | | Dates: | 1787 - 1796 | | | Extent: | 10 volumes
| | | Locations: | Abington | Albany | Augusta | Baltimore | Bedford | Bowling Green | Burlington | Carlisle | Charleston | Charlotte | Chicoutimi | Danville | Fort de Chartres | Fredericksburg | Fredericktown | Grandfather Mountain | Knoxville | La Prairie | Lancaster | Lexington | Limestone Cove | Louisville | Montreal | Morganton | Nashville | Nassau | New Haven | New York | Philadelphia | Pittsburgh | Poughkeepsie | Richmond | Saint Augustine | Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu | Saratoga Springs | Savannah | Strasburg | Tadoussac | Wabash | Washington D.C. | Wilmington | Yellow Mountain | | | Abstract: | Michaux maintained travel journals during his excursions throughout North America between 1787-1796. These 10 volumes furnish accounts of Charleston (September 1787), Saint Augustine and the Bahamas (1787-88), the Savannah River (December 1788), and Kentucky shortly after statehood (1794-95). Notably, Michaux records at least one visit to David Rittenhouse and Thomas Jefferson (12/14/1793), and he makes a proposal to the American Philosophical Society to explore unknown regions beyond Missouri and Kentucky, which Jefferson, then Secretary of State, accepts (12/10/1792). French-reading researchers—the volumes are maintained entirely in French—ought to find that these volumes offer insights into Southern and Western exploration during the early national period. | | |
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The journal was printed in APS Proceedings 26 (1889):1. The Kentucky travels can be found in Reuben G. Thwaites' Early Western Travels, 1748-1846. | | |
| Michaux maintained travel journals during his excursions throughout North America between 1787-1796. These 10 volumes furnish accounts of Charleston (September 1787), Saint Augustine and the Bahamas (1787-88), the Savannah River (December 1788), and Kentucky shortly after statehood (1794-95). Notably, Michaux records at least one visit to David Rittenhouse and Thomas Jefferson (12/14/1793), and he makes a proposal to the American Philosophical Society to explore unknown regions beyond Missouri and Kentucky, which Jefferson, then Secretary of State, accepts (12/10/1792). French-reading researchers—the volumes are maintained entirely in French—ought to find that these volumes offer insights into Southern and Western exploration during the early national period. The journal was printed in APS Proceedings 26 (1889):1. The Kentucky travels can be found in Reuben G. Thwaites' Early Western Travels, 1748-1846. View Full Description in New Window | | | | | | | Subjects: | American Philosophical Society. | Botany. | Diaries. | French--United States. | Geography. | Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826. | Natural history. | Rittenhouse, David, 1732-1796. | Travel. | United States--Civilization--1783-1865. | | | Collection: | Andre Michaux et son exploration en Amerique du Nord, 1785-1796
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2. | Title: | John Clark Slater Diary Abstracts (1900-1975) | | | Dates: | 1900 - 1875 | | | Extent: | 1 volume
| | | Locations: | Amsterdam | Arlington | Bath | Baton Rouge | Beacon | Beppu | Berlin | Bermuda | Biloxi | Boston | Brookhaven | Brunswick | Bryn Mawr | Buffalo | Buffalo | Cambridge | Cambridge, Massachusetts | Carville | Charlottesville | Cherbourg | Chicago | Cologne | Copenhagen | Dallas | Deming | Denver | Dresden | Durham | Edinburgh | El Paso | Fort Myers | Frankfurt | Fredericksburg | Fukuoka | Fukuyama | Gainesville | Geneva | Glasgow | Gothenburg | Grand Canyon | Great Falls | Greenville | Grindelwald | Hakone | Hart | Harwell | HindAs | Hiroshima | Hohenschwangau | Honolulu | Houston | Innsbruck | Interlaken | Ithaca | Kobe | Kumamoto | Kyoto | Kyushu | Lake Chūzenji | Lake Moxie | Leiden | Lexington | Limerick | Liverpool | London | Los Alamos | Los Angeles | Lucerne | Macon | Madison | Mainz | Malvern | Manchester | Marlborough | Menton | Miami | Minneapolis | Monterey | Montreal | Mount Aso | Mount Unzen | Munich | Nagasaki | Naples | Natchez | Neuschwansteinstraße | New Brunswick | New Castle | New Haven | New Orleans | New York | Newark | Nice | Nikko | Oak Ridge | Oklahoma City | Olympic Valley | Orlando | Osaka | Oxford | Oxford, Mississippi | Paris | Pasadena | Philadelphia | Phoenix | Pittsburgh | Prague | Princeton | Reno | Rochester | Rockport | Rome | Roswell | Saint Francisville | Saint Louis | Salzburg | San Francisco | Sanibel | Santa Barbara | Schenectady | Seattle | Shannon | Shikoku | Shimabara | South Newfane | Southampton | Stockholm | Stoke-on-Trent | Tahoe | Tallahassee | Tampa | The Hague | Tokyo | Uppsala | Venice | Victoria | Vienna | Virginia City | Visalia | Washington D.C. | Weldon | Wells | Worcester, United Kingdom | Yosemite Valley | Zurich | | | Abstract: | The John Slater Papers include abstracts from his diaries, available as loose, mostly typed pages, which traverse his consequential career in physics (1900-1975). These abstracts trace Slater's doctoral study at Harvard (1923) and postgraduate work at Cambridge University, appointment at MIT (1930), work at the Laboratory for Nuclear Science during World War II, and late-career at the University of Florida (after his retirement from MIT in 1966). His diaries contain notes about a trip to Japan (including Hiroshima and Nagasaki) in the fall 1953, meetings with defense contractors (such as Lockheed Martin) throughout the 1950s and 1960s, a sighting of Sputnik (7/20/1958), notes about an "NSF proposal for computing center" (4/30/1965), associations with and publications of APS members (7/7/1951, 7/7/1972), and Slater's own personal affairs, as excerpted in Selected Quotations. As such, these abstracts may interest scholars researching John Clark Slater's career in the field of physics, biochemistry, atomic history, and the history of science more broadly, as well as those considering World War II and military contractors in the Cold War period, the space race, the history of computing, and the institutional history of the American Philosophical Society.; To supplement these diary abstracts, researchers might choose to expand their exploration of the Slater Papers, which also contain 133 research notebooks (1944-1976), a lengthy series of folders, containing lectures, scientific notes, drafts of manuscripts and papers, correspondence from his collaboration with the Los Alamos Labs (1966-1970), and correspondence relating to the National Academy of Science. | | |
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| The John Slater Papers include abstracts from his diaries, available as loose, mostly typed pages, which traverse his consequential career in physics (1900-1975). These abstracts trace Slater's doctoral study at Harvard (1923) and postgraduate work at Cambridge University, appointment at MIT (1930), work at the Laboratory for Nuclear Science during World War II, and late-career at the University of Florida (after his retirement from MIT in 1966). His diaries contain notes about a trip to Japan (including Hiroshima and Nagasaki) in the fall 1953, meetings with defense contractors (such as Lockheed Martin) throughout the 1950s and 1960s, a sighting of Sputnik (7/20/1958), notes about an "NSF proposal for computing center" (4/30/1965), associations with and publications of APS members (7/7/1951, 7/7/1972), and Slater's own personal affairs, as excerpted in Selected Quotations. As such, these abstracts may interest scholars researching John Clark Slater's career in the field of physics, biochemistry, atomic history, and the history of science more broadly, as well as those considering World War II and military contractors in the Cold War period, the space race, the history of computing, and the institutional history of the American Philosophical Society.; To supplement these diary abstracts, researchers might choose to expand their exploration of the Slater Papers, which also contain 133 research notebooks (1944-1976), a lengthy series of folders, containing lectures, scientific notes, drafts of manuscripts and papers, correspondence from his collaboration with the Los Alamos Labs (1966-1970), and correspondence relating to the National Academy of Science.
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Selected Quotations- "In Washington, talking over plans with RCLM. She agrees to marry me. We'll be married sometime in spring of 1954" (11/21-22/1953)
- "To My Darling Rose, Who is Even More Fascinating at 70 Than When I first Met Her at 35. From Her Devoted Husband, John Clark Slater" (10/23/1972)
| | | Subjects: | American Philosophical Society. | Asia. | Atomic history and culture | Biochemistry. | Cold War. | Computers--History. | Defense contracts. | Diaries. | Europe. | Higher education & society | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Physics. | Quantum theory. | Science. | Space flight. | Travel. | United States--Civilization--1918-1945. | United States--Civilization--1945- | University of Florida | | | Collection: | John Clarke Slater Papers
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