Matthew Fontaine Maury papers, (Record no. 42259)
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| LC control number | mm 79031682 |
| NUCMC control number | ms 63000378 |
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| Original cataloging agency | DLC |
| Description conventions | dacs |
| Transcribing agency | DLC |
| Modifying agency | DLC |
| 072 #7 - SUBJECT CATEGORY CODE | |
| Subject category code | S |
| Source | lcmd |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Maury, Matthew Fontaine, |
| Dates associated with a name | 1806-1873. |
| 245 00 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Matthew Fontaine Maury papers, |
| Inclusive dates | 1825-1960 |
| Bulk dates | (bulk 1830-1880). |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 14,650 |
| Type of unit | items. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 65 |
| Type of unit | containers plus |
| Extent | 1 |
| Type of unit | oversize. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 17.5 |
| Type of unit | linear feet. |
| 506 0# - RESTRICTIONS ON ACCESS NOTE | |
| Terms governing access | Open to research. |
| 520 8# - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | Correspondence, letterbooks, diaries, journals, drafts and printed copies of speeches, articles, and other writings, notebooks, electrical experiment book, charts, and printed material relating chiefly to Maury's naval career, scientific activities and interests, service as a Confederate agent in England, and work as an immigration official for Southern expatriates in Mexico, and to the Maury (Morey) family. Documents Maury's service as a midshipman in the U.S. Navy in the 1820s and 1830s and as superintendent of the U.S. Depot of Charts and Instruments and of the U.S. Naval Observatory between 1842 and 1861. Also documents his resignation as an officer of the U.S. Navy and commission as commander in the Confederate navy (1861). Topics include meteorology, mines, oceanography, torpedoes, and the physical geography of Virginia. Includes papers of Charles Alphonso Smith regarding Maury and a typescript of a life of Maury by Catherine Cate Coblentz. |
| 520 8# - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | Family correspondents include Maury's wife Ann Maury (1811-1901); his children Nannie Corbin and her husband Wellford Corbin, Matthew Fontaine Maury, Jr. (1849-1886), Richard L. Maury, Mary Werth, and Eliza Withers; his cousins Ann Maury (1803-1876) and Rutson Maury; and his kinsman Franklin Minor. Correspondents include William M. Blackford, William C. Hasbrouck, Nathaniel J. Holmes, Marin H. Jansen, Maximilian (Emperor of Mexico), James Hervey Otey, Francis Henney Smith, and F. W. Tremlett. |
| 544 ## - LOCATION OF OTHER ARCHIVAL MATERIALS NOTE | |
| Materials specified | Maps |
| Provenance | transferred to |
| Custodian | Library of Congress Geography and Map Division. |
| 545 0# - BIOGRAPHICAL OR HISTORICAL DATA | |
| Biographical or historical data | Naval officer and oceanographer. |
| 546 ## - LANGUAGE NOTE | |
| Language note | Collection material in English. |
| 555 8# - CUMULATIVE INDEX/FINDING AIDS NOTE | |
| Cumulative index/finding aids note | Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at |
| Uniform Resource Identifier | <a href="http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms001026">http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms001026</a> |
| 600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Blackford, William M., |
| Dates associated with a name | 1801-1864 |
| Form subdivision | Correspondence. |
| 600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Corbin, Nannie, |
| Dates associated with a name | 1837-1900 |
| Form subdivision | Correspondence. |
| 600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Corbin, Wellford |
| Form subdivision | Correspondence. |
| 600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Hasbrouck, William C. |
| Form subdivision | Correspondence. |
| 600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Holmes, Nathaniel J. |
| Form subdivision | Correspondence. |
| 600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Jansen, Marin H. |
| Fuller form of name | (Marin Henry), |
| Dates associated with a name | 1817-1893 |
| Form subdivision | Correspondence. |
| 600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Maury, Ann, |
| Dates associated with a name | 1803-1876 |
| Form subdivision | Correspondence. |
| 600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Maury, Ann, |
| Dates associated with a name | 1811-1901 |
| Form subdivision | Correspondence. |
| 600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Maury, Matthew Fontaine, |
| Dates associated with a name | 1849-1886 |
| Form subdivision | Correspondence. |
| 600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Maury, Richard L. |
| Fuller form of name | (Richard Lancelot), |
| Dates associated with a name | 1840-1907 |
| Form subdivision | Correspondence. |
| 600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Maury, Rutson, |
| Dates associated with a name | 1805-1882 |
| Form subdivision | Correspondence. |
| 600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Maximilian, |
| Titles and other words associated with a name | Emperor of Mexico, |
| Dates associated with a name | 1832-1867 |
| Form subdivision | Correspondence. |
| 600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Minor, Franklin, |
| Dates associated with a name | 1812-1867 |
| Form subdivision | Correspondence. |
| 600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Otey, James Hervey, |
| Dates associated with a name | 1800-1863 |
| Form subdivision | Correspondence. |
| 600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Smith, Francis Henney, |
| Dates associated with a name | 1812-1890 |
| Form subdivision | Correspondence. |
| 600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Tremlett, F. W. |
| Fuller form of name | (Francis William) |
| Form subdivision | Correspondence. |
| 600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Werth, Mary, |
| Dates associated with a name | 1844-1928 |
| Form subdivision | Correspondence. |
| 600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Withers, Eliza, |
| Dates associated with a name | 1846- |
| Form subdivision | Correspondence. |
| 600 30 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Morey family. |
| 600 30 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Morey family |
| General subdivision | Correspondence. |
| 610 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--CORPORATE NAME | |
| Corporate name or jurisdiction name as entry element | Confederate States of America. |
| Subordinate unit | Navy |
| General subdivision | Officers. |
| 610 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--CORPORATE NAME | |
| Corporate name or jurisdiction name as entry element | United States. |
| Subordinate unit | Navy |
| General subdivision | Officers. |
| 610 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--CORPORATE NAME | |
| Corporate name or jurisdiction name as entry element | United States. |
| Subordinate unit | Depot of Charts and Instruments. |
| 610 20 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--CORPORATE NAME | |
| Corporate name or jurisdiction name as entry element | United States Naval Observatory. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | American Confederate voluntary exiles |
| Geographic subdivision | Mexico. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Diplomatic and consular service, Confederate |
| Geographic subdivision | Great Britain. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Meteorology. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Mines and mineral resources. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Oceanography. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Physical geography |
| Geographic subdivision | Virginia. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Science |
| General subdivision | History |
| Chronological subdivision | 19th century. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Torpedoes. |
| 651 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--GEOGRAPHIC NAME | |
| Geographic name | Confederate States of America |
| General subdivision | Foreign relations |
| Geographic subdivision | Great Britain. |
| 651 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--GEOGRAPHIC NAME | |
| Geographic name | Confederate States of America |
| General subdivision | History, Naval. |
| 651 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--GEOGRAPHIC NAME | |
| Geographic name | Great Britain |
| General subdivision | Foreign relations |
| Geographic subdivision | Confederate States of America. |
| 651 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--GEOGRAPHIC NAME | |
| Geographic name | United States |
| General subdivision | History |
| Chronological subdivision | Civil War, 1861-1865 |
| General subdivision | Naval operations. |
| 651 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--GEOGRAPHIC NAME | |
| Geographic name | United States |
| General subdivision | History |
| Chronological subdivision | Civil War, 1861-1865 |
| General subdivision | Refugees. |
| 656 #7 - INDEX TERM--OCCUPATION | |
| Occupation | Naval officers. |
| Source of term | itoamc |
| 656 #7 - INDEX TERM--OCCUPATION | |
| Occupation | Naval officers, Confederate. |
| Source of term | itoamc |
| 656 #7 - INDEX TERM--OCCUPATION | |
| Occupation | Oceanographers. |
| Source of term | itoamc |
| 700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Coblentz, Catherine Cate, |
| Dates associated with a name | 1897-1951. |
| Title of a work | Matthew Fontaine Maury biography. |
| Date of a work | 1953. |
| 700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Smith, C. Alphonso |
| Fuller form of name | (Charles Alphonso), |
| Dates associated with a name | 1864-1924. |
| Title of a work | C. Alphonso Smith papers. |
| Date of a work | 1864-1927. |
| 856 4# - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS | |
| Materials specified | Finding aid |
| Uniform Resource Identifier | <a href="http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms001026">http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms001026</a> |
| 856 4# - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS | |
| Materials specified | Finding aid (PDF) |
| Uniform Resource Identifier | <a href="http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms001026.3">http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms001026.3</a> |
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