Senior Class of the College of New Jersey's Letter to Joseph Henry (February 13, 1837)

ID: SIA2012-2944

Creator: Joseph Henry Papers Project

Form/Genre: Document

Date: February 13, 1837

Citation: Reingold, Nathan, et al, eds., The Papers of Joseph Henry, Volume 3, The Princeton Years: January 1836-December 1837 (Washington: Smithsonian Institution, 1979), 149-150

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Summary

Letter from the Senior Class of the College of New Jersey, or Princeton University, to Joseph Henry, then a professor at Princeton University and later first Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. In the letter, the students thank Henry for his "attention as a professor and courtesy as a gentleman."

Subject

  • College of New Jersey (Princeton, N.J.)
  • Princeton University

Category

Historic Images of the Smithsonian

Notes

The accompanying PDF contains SIA2012-2706 and SIA2012-2707, which are pages scanned from the edited transcript of the original version and notes in the Joseph Henry Papers Volume 3, pages 149-150.

Contained within

  • Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 7001, Box 7, Folder: 20 - January-March 1837
  • Reingold, Nathan, et al, eds., The Papers of Joseph Henry, Volume 3, The Princeton Years: January 1836-December 1837 (Washington: Smithsonian Institution, 1979), 149-150

Contact information

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

Date

February 13, 1837

Restrictions & Rights

No restrictions

Topic

  • Students
  • Letters
  • Secretaries

Form/Genre

  • Document
  • Paper

ID Number

SIA2012-2944

Physical description

Number of Images: 1 ; Color: Color ; Size: 7 1/4w x 9h ; Type of Image: Document ; Medium: Paper

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