Joseph Henry's Letter to Benjamin Peirce (February 25, 1867)

Summary

Letter from Joseph Henry, first Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, to Benjamin Peirce, a mathematician and professor at Harvard University, February 25, 1867. In the letter, Henry alerts Peirce that the Secretary of the Treasury will nominate him to be the Director of the United States Coastal Survey. Henry urges Peirce to accept the position, and to help keep the Coastal Survey in the realm of science and not in politics.

Subject

• Peirce, Benjamin
• Harvard University
• United States. Secretary of the Treasury

Category

Historic Images of the Smithsonian

Notes

The accompanying PDF contains SIA2012-3046, SIA2012-3047, and SIA2012-3048, which are pages scanned from the edited transcript of the original version and notes in the Joseph Henry Papers Volume 11, pages 115-117 (Document 54).

Contained within

• Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 7001, Box 4, Folder: 1
• Rothenberg, Marc, et al, eds., The Papers of Joseph Henry, Volume 11, The Smithsonian Years: January 1866-May 1878 (Smithsonian Institution in association with Science History Publications/USA, 2007), 115-117

Contact information

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

Date

February 25, 1867

Restrictions & Rights

No restrictions

Topic

• Political science
• Secretaries
• Letters
• Science

Form/Genre

• Document
• Paper

ID Number

SIA2012-6796 and SIA2012-6797

Physical description

Number of Images: 2; Color: Color ; Size: 10.00w x 7.58h ; Type of Image: Document ; Medium: Paper

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