Guide to the Frederick Slate Papers, 1862-1937

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Guide to the Frederick Slate Papers, 1862-1937

Collection number: BANC MSS C-B 1051

The Bancroft Library

University of California, Berkeley

Berkeley, California

Contact Information:

The Bancroft Library.
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, California, 94720-6000
Phone: (510) 642-6481
Fax: (510) 642-7589
Email: bancref@library.berkeley.edu
URL: http://bancroft.berkeley.edu

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Collection Summary

Collection Title: Frederick Slate Papers,

Date (inclusive): 1862-1937

Collection Number: BANC MSS C-B 1051

Creator: Slate, Frederick, 1852-1930

Extent: Number of containers: 1 box, 7 v., 1 oversize folder and 1 oversize volume

Repository: The Bancroft Library

Berkeley, California 94720-6000

Physical Location: For current information on the location of these materials, please consult the Library's online catalog.

Abstract: Letters, diaries, drafts of speeches and articles (including a biography of Hilgard), diplomas and photographs, relating mainly to his career at the University. Some papers pertaining to property in Berkeley and to his estaste, and a small group of family papers,1847?-1879, also included.

Languages Represented: English

Information for Researchers

Access

Collection is open for research.

Publication Rights

Copyright has not been assigned to The Bancroft Library. All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Head of Public Services. Permission for publication is given on behalf of The Bancroft Library as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained by the reader.

Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], Frederick Slate papers, BANC MSS C-B 1051, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.

Material Cataloged Separately

Photographs were removed to the Pictorial Collections in 1978.

Biographical Sketch

Frederick Slate, physicist, the University of California at Berkeley, was born in London, England, on January 21, 1852. He obtained his degree from the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn in 1871, was instructor of chemistry from 1874 to 1877, and studied at Berlin and Strasbourg from 1877 to 1879. He came to the University of California where he taught physics from 1891 to 1918, and was the author of several books on physics.

Scope and Content

These papers, given to The Bancroft Library from the Slate estate, via the Gift Division of the Main Library, in May, June and July 1966, contain letters, diaries, drafts of articles and speeches, diplomas and photographs. Some papers pertaining to property in Berkeley and to the settlement of his estate are included, as are some family papers from 1847 to 1879.

Box 1

Outgoing letter, June 10, 1862

Incoming letters.

Additional Note

Single letters placed in A-Z Miscellany. Two or more letters arranged alphabetically, then chronologically within each folder.

Drafts of articles and talks

Personal papers, 1866-1901, including official copy of birth certificate, naturalization papers, marriage certificate, etc.

Biographical information

Papers relating to property in Berkeley, 1888-1930

Papers relating to the estate of Frederick Slate, 1930-1937

Miscellaneous family papers, 1847-1879, mainly letters to Slate's mother from various members of her family.

Miscellaneous miscellany

Papers relating to the estate of Ella (Hurd) De Wolfe Slate, 1926

Diaries and notebooks

volume v. 1

Diary, entitled University matters, 1881-1896

volume v. 2

Personal diary, Jan. 1915-Aug. 1919

volume v. 3

Diary, Sept. 1919-Sept. 1925

volume v. 4

Notes, some in German, 1879-1891

volume v. 5

Misc. notes

volume v. 6

Misc. notes on laboratories, etc., at various universities, with lists of books in the libraries and types of apparatus, n.d.

volume v. 7

Misc. notes, 1884-1886, many relating to education

oversize Oversize vol.

Mechanical Drawing plates by F. Slate

oversize Oversize folder 1 B

Diplomas

A-Z Miscellany

Brasch, Frederick Edwards, 1875-

Letter, Nov. 29, 1921

California. University, Berkeley. President

Letter, Feb. 12, 1918, by Benjamin Ide Wheeler, containing copy of letter from the Carnegie Foundation.

Hall, Edwin, Herbert, 1855-1938

Letter, Aug. 9, 1918

Heaviside, Oliver, 1850-1935

Letter, Aug. 7, 1921

Lovejoy Arthur Oncken, 1873-1962

Letter, Jan. 2, 1923

Shewhart, Walter Andrew, 1891-

Letter, Oct. 13, 1918

Van Valkenburgh, Arba Seymour, 1862-1944

Letter, Aug. 30, 1909

Webster, Arthur Gordon, 1863-1923

Letter, Oct. 22, 1920

Wilczynski, Ernest Julius, 1876-1932

Letter, Oct. 21, 1920

Campbell, William Wallace, 1862-1938

2 letters, 1919-1920

Crew, Henry, 1859-

3 letters, 1918-1921

Leuschner, Armin Otto, 1868-1953

3 letters, 1918-1921

Millikan, Robert Andrews, 1868-1953

2 letters, 1919-1920

Quimby, Shirley Leon, 1893

4 letters, 1920-1921

Snow, Benjamin Warner, 1860

2 letters, 1918-1920

Wheeler, Benjamin Ide, 1854-1927

See California. University, Berkeley. President