Joseph Henry's Letter to Samuel Foster Haven (April 3, 1856)
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Download IIIF ManifestRequest permissionsDownload image PrintLetter from Joseph Henry, first Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, to Samuel Foster Haven, librarian, anthropologist, and archaeologist, April 3, 1856. In the letter, Henry discusses the content of Haven's work "Archaeology of the United States" published by the Smithsonian Institution later that year.
Haven, Samuel Foster
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5 pages scanned from the edited transcript of the original version and notes in the Joseph Henry Papers Volume 9, pages 334-338 (Document 194).
Rothenberg, Marc, et al, eds., The Papers of Joseph Henry, Volume 9, The Smithsonian Years: January 1854-December 1857 (Smithsonian Institution in association with Science History Publications/USA, 2002), 334-338
Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, SW, Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu
April 3, 1856
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