TY  - GEN
AU  - Wilkes,Charles
TI  - Charles Wilkes papers,
KW  - Agassiz, Louis,
KW  - Bolton, William Compton,
KW  - Dana, James Dwight,
KW  - Drayton, Joseph
KW  - Gray, Asa,
KW  - Mason, J. M.
KW  - McClellan, George Brinton,
KW  - Slidell, John,
KW  - Stuart, Fred D.
KW  - Welles, Gideon,
KW  - Wilkes, Eliza
KW  - Wilkes, Jane
KW  - Wilkes, Jane Renwick,
KW  - Wilkes, John,
KW  - Wilkes, Mary Lynch Bolton
KW  - Wilkes family.
KW  - Confederate States of America
KW  - Navy
KW  - United States
KW  - James River Flotilla
KW  - Potomac Flotilla
KW  - West India Squadron
KW  - United States Exploring Expedition
KW  - (1838-1842)
KW  - Astronomy
KW  - Cholera
KW  - Germany
KW  - Maps
KW  - Meteorology
KW  - Observations
KW  - Scientific expeditions
KW  - Antarctica
KW  - Hawaii
KW  - Oceania
KW  - Tides
KW  - Trent Affair, 1861
KW  - Discovery and exploration
KW  - Commerce
KW  - History
KW  - Civil War, 1861-1865
KW  - Naval operations
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - 1861-1865
KW  - Explorers
KW  - itoamc
KW  - Naval officers
N1  - Open to research; 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
N2  - 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
UR  - http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms002005
UR  - http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms002005.3
ER  -