Joseph Henry's Letter to Samuel Foster Haven (April 3, 1856)

Summary

Letter 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.

Subject

Haven, Samuel Foster

Category

Historic Images of the Smithsonian

Notes

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).

Contained within

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

Contact information

Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, SW, Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu

Date

April 3, 1856

Restrictions & Rights

No restrictions

Topic

• Archaeology
• Publications
• Secretaries
• Letters
• Science
• Anthropology
• Librarians
• Anthropologists
• Archaeologists

Place

United States

Form/Genre

• Document
• Paper

ID Number

SIA2012-0876 and SIA2012-0877 and SIA2012-0878 and SIA2012-0879 and SIA2012-0880

Physical description

Number of Images: 5 ; Color: Black and White ; Size: 7w x 10h ; Type of Image: Document ; Medium: Paper

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