Cleveland Abbe papers, 1850-1954 (bulk 1850-1916).
- 9,500 items. 31 3 containers plus oversize. 12.4 linear feet.
- Arranged in 7 series. Series 1: Diaries, 1862-1889; Series 2: General Correspondence, 1850-1916; Series 3: Family Correspondence and Related Papers, circa 1858-1954; Series 4: Subject File, 1855-1884; Series 5: Speech and Article File; Series 6: Printed Matter; and Series 7: Oversize.
Open to research.
Correspondence, diaries, weather maps, weather synopses and probabilities, and other papers relating to Abbe's career with the Weather Service of the U.S. Army Signal Corps and the U.S. Weather Bureau. Documents his participation in the West African Eclipse Expedition (1880s). Also includes Abbe (Abbey) family genealogical material and correspondence with family members particularly his brother, Robert Abbe; correspondence with Benjamin Apthorp Gould whom Cleveland Abbe assisted in the telegraphic longitude work of the U.S. Coast Survey at Cambridge, Mass.; and correspondence with Otto Struve, former director of the Glavnai͡a astronomicheskai͡a observatorii͡a, Pulkovo, Russia, where Abbe was a guest astronomer (1865-1866). Other correspondents include Albert S. Bickmore, James H. Coffin, William Ferrel, Wolcott Gibbs, Asaph Hall, Joseph Henry, S.P. Langley, Simon Newcomb, A.S. Packard, Benjamin Peirce, Lewis M. Rutherfurd, Truman Henry Safford, G.M. Searle, and James C. Watson.
Astronomer and meteorologist.
Collection material in English.
Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms010272
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Abbe, Robert, 1851-1928 --Correspondence. Bickmore, Albert S. 1839-1914 --Correspondence. Coffin, James H. 1806-1873 --Correspondence. Ferrel, William, 1817-1891 --Correspondence. Gibbs, Wolcott, 1822-1908 --Correspondence. Gould, Benjamin Apthorp, 1824-1896 --Correspondence. Hall, Asaph, 1829-1907 --Correspondence. Henry, Joseph, 1797-1878 --Correspondence. Langley, S. P. 1834-1906 --Correspondence. Newcomb, Simon, 1835-1909 --Correspondence. Packard, A. S. 1839-1905 --Correspondence. Peirce, Benjamin, 1809-1880 --Correspondence. Rutherford, Lewis M.--Correspondence. Safford, Truman Henry, 1836-1901 --Correspondence. Searle, G. M. 1839-1918 --Correspondence. Struve, Otto, 1819-1905 --Correspondence. Watson, James C. 1838-1880 --Correspondence. Abbey family.
United States. Army. Signal Corps. United States. Weather Bureau. Glavnai͡a astronomicheskai͡a observatorii͡a (Pulkovo, Russia) United States Coast Survey.