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Record Unit 34
Office of the Secretary,
Correspondence,
1887-1907

Descriptive Entry


DESCRIPTIVE ENTRY

Shortly after Langley became Secretary, a new system of dividing outgoing correspondence into subjects was devised as follows (some of the units are not represented in the Archives, hence the gaps in series numbers): 1) General, 59 volumes, 1892-1907; 2) Museum, 18 volumes, 1892-1907; 4) Ethnology, 7 volumes, 1892-1907; 5) National Zoological Park, 9 volumes, 1890-1907; 6) Astrophysical Observatory, 14 volumes, 1892-1907; 8) Publication Requests, 3 volumes, 1900-1907; 11) Assistant in Charge of Office, 8 volumes, 1891-1907; 12) New Museum, 1 volume, 1903-1907; 13) Advisory Committee on Printing and Publication, 1 volume, 1906-1907; 20) Aerodromics, 10 volumes, 1891-1907; 25) Hodgkins, 6 volumes, 1892-1907. All are chronologic within divisions. There are also copies of Museum Business Letters, 2 volumes, 1888-1889, and Internal and Confidential Correspondence, 9 volumes, 1887-1906.

Volumes are indexed individually. Additional finding aids to this correspondence exist in the form of card indexes, one of which is bound. A second index, combining incoming and outgoing correspondence for the period, provides access mostly by proper name and usually contains an abstracted version of the letter. Deterioration of the letterpress correspondence has affected the legibility of the microfilm edition. A volume list follows.

Box 1 of 44

General, 1892-1907 (Series 1)

Box 2 of 44

Box 3 of 44

Box 4 of 44

Box 5 of 44

Box 6 of 44

Box 7 of 44

Box 8 of 44

Box 9 of 44

Box 10 of 44

Box 11 of 44

Box 12 of 44

Box 13 of 44

Box 14 of 44

Box 15 of 44

Box 16 of 44

Box 17 of 44

Museum, 1892-1907 (Series 2)

Box 18 of 44

Box 19 of 44

Box 20 of 44

Box 21 of 44

Box 22 of 44

Box 23 of 44

Ethnology, 1892-1907 (Series 4)

Box 24 of 44

Box 25 of 44

National Zoological Park, 1890-1907 (Series 5)

Box 26 of 44

Box 27 of 44

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Astrophysical Observatory, 1892-1907 (Series 6)

Box 29 of 44

Box 30 of 44

Box 31 of 44

Publication Requests, 1900-1907 (Series 8)

Box 32 of 44

Assistant in Charge of Office, 1891-1907 (Series 11)

Box 33 of 44

Box 34 of 44

New Museum, 1903-1907 (Series 12)

Advisory Committee on Printing and Publication, 1906-1907 (Series 13)

Box 35 of 44

Aerodromics, 1891-1907 (Series 20)

Box 36 of 44

Box 37 of 44

Box 38 of 44

Hodgkins, 1892-1907 (Series 25)

Box 39 of 44

Box 40 of 44

Box 41 of 44

Copies of Museum Business Letters, 1888-1889, and Internal and Confidential Correspondence, 1887-1906

Box 42 of 44

Box 43 of 44

Box 44 of 44


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