04970cpcaa2200829 a 4500 mm 75045716 DLC 20260227111616.0 cr ||||||||||| 751124|||||||||||| eng mm 75045716 ms 62004650 DLC dacs DLC DLC W lcmd Wilkes, Charles, 1798-1877. Charles Wilkes papers, 1607-1959 (bulk 1841-1865). 6,500 items. 45 containers plus 2 oversize plus 1 vault container. 26 microfilm reels. 18 linear feet. Open to research. Correspondence, letterbooks, journals and diaries, autobiography, scientific tracts and notes detailing weather and tidal observations, legal and financial papers, genealogical charts, printed material, and other papers. Subjects include Wilkes's command of an expedition (1838-1842) to the Antarctic, islands in the Pacific, and the northwest coast of the U.S.; his work in Washington, D.C., preparing and publishing (1843-1863) information collected by the expedition; his capture of J.M. Mason and John Slidell in the Trent affair (1861); and his command of the James River Flotilla and the West India Squadron during the Civil War. Subjects include efforts to capture Confederate destroyers, commerce in the North, and dissatisfaction with American leadership during the Civil War; and an outbreak of cholera in Germany in 1873. Also includes letterbooks (1817-1841) of William Compton Bolton. Correspondents include Louis Agassiz, James Dwight Dana, Joseph Drayton, Asa Gray, George Brinton McClellan, Fred D. Stuart, and Gideon Welles. Family papers include correspondence of Charles Wilkes, his children John, Jane, and Eliza, and his wives Jane Renwick Wilkes and Mary Lynch Bolton Wilkes; genealogies; and marriage and building contracts, leases, inventories, promissory notes, trust agreements, and debt records dating from the seventeenth century concerning the family in England and America. Microfilm edition of containers 1-31 available, no. 16,501. Microfilm produced from originals in the Manuscript Division. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress Photoduplication Service. Naval officer and explorer. Collection material in English. Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms002005 Agassiz, Louis, 1807-1873 Correspondence. Bolton, William Compton, -1849 Correspondence. Dana, James Dwight, 1813-1895 Correspondence. Drayton, Joseph Correspondence. Gray, Asa, 1810-1888 Correspondence. Mason, J. M. (James Murray), 1798-1871. McClellan, George Brinton, 1826-1885 Correspondence. Slidell, John, 1793-1871. Stuart, Fred D. Correspondence. Welles, Gideon, 1802-1878 Correspondence. Wilkes, Eliza Correspondence. Wilkes, Jane Correspondence. Wilkes, Jane Renwick, -1843 Correspondence. Wilkes, John, 1827-1908 Correspondence. Wilkes, Mary Lynch Bolton Correspondence. Wilkes family. Confederate States of America. Navy. United States. Navy. James River Flotilla. United States. Navy. Potomac Flotilla. United States. Navy. West India Squadron. United States Exploring Expedition (1838-1842) Astronomy. Cholera Germany. Maps. Meteorology Observations. Scientific expeditions Antarctica. Scientific expeditions Hawaii. Scientific expeditions Oceania. Tides. Trent Affair, 1861. Antarctica Discovery and exploration. Hawaii Discovery and exploration. Oceania Discovery and exploration. United States Commerce. United States History Civil War, 1861-1865. United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 Naval operations. United States Politics and government 1861-1865. Explorers. itoamc Naval officers. itoamc Finding aid http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms002005 Finding aid (PDF) http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms002005.3 39368 39368