Joseph Henry's Letter to Harriet Henry (October 30, 1837)
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Request permissionsDownload image PrintLetter from Joseph Henry, then a professor at Princeton University and later first Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, to Harriet Henry, his wife, October 30, 1837. Henry writes from a steamboat transporting him from New York City to Albany, NY. He describes his journey back to the United States from England following his scientific meetings in Europe.
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2 pages scanned from the edited transcript of the original version and notes in the Joseph Henry Papers Volume 3, pages 514-515.
Reingold, Nathan, et al, eds., The Papers of Joseph Henry, Volume 3, The Princeton Years: January 1836-December 1837 (Washington: Smithsonian Institution, 1979), 514-515
Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, SW, Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu
October 30, 1837
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