Guide to the LeConte Family Papers: Additions, 1856-1916
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Guide to the LeConte Family Papers: Additions, 1856-1916
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Papers of John LeConte and his wife
Correspondence
Letters written by Eleanor Josephine LeConte, 1864-1896, mainly to her sister, describing life in Columbia, South Carolina, during the Civil War. (1 folder)
Letters written by John LeConte, 1856-1878. Arranged chronologically. Primarily letters written from the University of South Carolina in Columbia to Benjamin Peirce. Letters of Mar. 14, 1856 and Oct. 14, 1860 include letters by Mrs. LeConte. (1 folder)
Letters written to Mr. and Mrs. John LeConte, arranged alphabetically by author. A partial list of correspondents follows the Key to Arrangement. Unlisted letters have been placed in an alphabetical miscellany.
John LeConte's copy of a syllabus of Charles F. McCay's Lectures on Civil Engineering, with pencilled annotations
Obituaries and memorials for John LeConte
Miscellany, 1868-1894
Writings, printed and manuscript
Printed
"Apparent Attractions and Repulsions of Small Floating Bodies," from The American Journal of Science, Dec. 1882
"The Decadence of Truthfulness," from Overland Monthly, Apr. 1890
"Influence of Modern Methods of Popularizing Science," an address delivered on Charter Day, March 23, 1882
"The Metric System," from Overland Monthly, Aug. 1885
"Origin of Jointed Structure in Undisturbed Clay and Marl Deposits," from The American Journal of Science, March 1882
"Physical Studies of Lake Tahoe," from Overland Monthly, 2d series, vols. 2-3
"Vital Statistics, and the True Coefficient of Mortality, Illustrated by Cancer," from the Tenth Biennial Report of the State Board of Health of California, 1888
Manuscripts
"Notes on the History of the Organization of the University of California"
"Popular Fallacies: Number Four - The Fallacies of Sight"
"To the Pliocene Skull"
Part I of a work relating to physics
Papers of Joseph LeConte
Correspondence
Letters written by him, 1823-1901. Arranged chronologically. Some to the Italian novelist, A. Fogazzaro. (1 folder)
Letters written to him, arranged alphabetically by author. A partial list of correspondents follows the Key to Arrangement. Unlisted letters have been placed in a miscellany.
Writings, printed and manuscript
Printed
"The General Interior Condition of the Earth," from American Geologist, July 1889
"Memoir of John LeConte, 1818-1891," April 1894
"On a Curious Visual Phenomenon," from The American Journal of Psychology, vol. III, No. 3, 1890
"The Relation of Evolution To Religious Thought," ndd.
"Sketch of a Philosophy That Might Fitly Be Named Evolutional Idealism," March 1893
"The South Revisited," from an informal lecture - Nov. 1888
"Tertiary and Post-Tertiary Changes of the Atlantic and Pacific Coast," from Bulletin of the Geological Society of America. March 16, 1891.
Manuscripts - Fragments
Proofs of plates for illustrations
Miscellaneous
Papers of Joseph Nisbet LeConte
Correspondence and papers relating to the settlement of his mother's estate, 1915-1916. (1 folder)
Clippings, roughly arranged by subject, relating to the Civil War, Jefferson Davis, John and Joseph LeConte, physics, etc.
Genealogical information
Notes and examination questions by Joseph LeConte (gift of his grandson, Joseph LeConte, Dec. 1981)
Alexander, Barton Stone, 1819-1878
5 letters, 1867-1869, to John LeConte (Box 1)
Altrocchi, Rudolph, 1882-
see Fogazzaro, Antonio
California. University. Regents
4 letters, 1868-1876, by A. J. Moulder and R. E. C. Stearns, to John LeConte (Box 1)
California. University, Berkeley. Library
Letter, Apr. 29, 1890, by J. C. Rowell, to John LeConte. (Box 1)
Coney, Donald, 1901-
see Fogazzaro, Antonio
Emmons, Samuel Franklin, 1841-1911
Letter, Apr. 2, 1883, to Joseph LeConte (Box 2)
Fogazzaro, Antonio, 1842-1911
5 letters, 1889-1895, to Joseph LeConte. At the end of the folder: copies of correspondence, including letters by Rudolph Altrocchi, Donald Coney and Joseph N. LeConte, relating to the Fogazzaro letters, and a copy of R. Altrocchi's article about them. (Box 2)
Gilbert, Grove Karl, 1843-1918
Letter, Apr. 29, 1890, to Joseph LeConte (Box 2)
Graham, Mary A. Cecilia, d. 1890
3 letters, 1867-1879, to her sister, Josephine LeConte. Undated obituary clipping and an article, "Plucking the Chicken," enclosed. (Box 1)
Henry, Joseph, 1797-1878
Letter, Nov. 21, 1874, to John LeConte (Box 1)
Hilgard, Julius Erasmus, 1825-1891
see National Academy of Sciences
Hitchcock, Martha Taliaferro (Hunter)
4 letters, 1876-1896, to John LeConte (Box 1)
Hudson, John R.
Letter, July 30, 1900, to Joseph LeConte, re his experiences fighting in the Philippines (Box 2)
LeConte, Eleanor Josephine (Graham), 1824-1894 (Mrs. John LeConte)
Letters, 1864-1896 in Box 1
LeConte, John, 1818-1891
Letters, 1856-1878 in Box 1
LeConte, Joseph, 1823-1901
6 letters, 1860-1891. Some written to the Italian novelist, A. Fogazzaro. (Box 2)
LeConte, Joseph Nisbet, 1870-1950
Correspondence re his mother's estate, 1915-1916 (Box 2).
See also Fogazzaro, Antonio
Lesquereux, Léo, 1806-1889
Letter, Jan. 21, 1873, to Joseph LeConte, re paleontological specimens. (Box 2)
Miel, Charles L.
Letter, Aug. 15, 1889, to Joseph LeConte (Box 2)
Moulder, Andrew Jackson, 1825-1895
see California. University. Regents
National Academy of Sciences
2 letters, 1878, by J. E. Hilgard (Box 1)
Peirce, Benjamin, 1809-1880
119 letters to Mr. and Mrs. John LeConte, 1852-1875 (Box 1) (Also on film)
Rowell, Joseph Cummings, 1853-1938
see California. University, Berkeley. Library
Stearns, Robert Edwards Carter, 1827-1909
see California. University. Regents