Lewis Reeves Gibbes papers, 1793-1894 (bulk 1838-1894).
- 5,700 items. 16 containers. 8 microfilm reels. 3 linear feet.
Open to research.
Chiefly correspondence along with specimen lists, resolutions, clippings, printed material, and other papers relating primarily to Gibbes's career as professor of astronomy, mathematics, and physics at the College of Charleston, South Carolina. Includes his correspondence with other scientists on the subjects of astronomy, botany, chemistry, geology, meteorology, physics, and zoology. Other subjects relate to the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the Smithsonian Institution. Also includes Gibbes (Gibbs) family letters. An addendum to the collection contains correspondence of James McBride (1784-1817), botanist of South Carolina, including letters from Thomas Smith Grimké and John C. Calhoun, the latter discussing matters relating to the War of 1812. Gibbes's correspondents include Stephen Alexander, A. D. Bache, Jacob Whitman Bailey, E. R. Beadle, Amos Binney, Langdon Cheves, Thomas Cooper, James Dwight Dana, J. D. B. De Bow, Henry William De Saussure, Charles Ellet, E. F. Ellet, James P. Espy, Alex M. Forster, Benjamin Apthorp Gould, Asa Gray, Samuel Steman Haldeman, Joseph Henry, Edward Claudius Herrick, John L. LeConte, Joseph LeConte, Elias Loomis, Joseph Lovering, Gabriel E. Manigault, Francis Markoe, Matthew Fontaine Maury, C. G. Memminger, Robert Treat Paine, James Louis Petigru, Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, W. C. Redfield, E. S. Ritchie, John Daniel Runkle, Jared Sparks, William Stimpson, David Humphreys Storer, William Henry Trescot, M. Tuomey, Joseph Winlock, and William Wurdemann.
Microfilm edition produced from originals in the Manuscript Division. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress Photoduplication Service, 1978.
Mathematician and naturalist.
Collection material in English.
Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms004009
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Alexander, Stephen, 1806-1883 --Correspondence. Bache, A. D. 1806-1867 --Correspondence. Bailey, Jacob Whitman, 1811-1857 --Correspondence. Beadle, E. R. 1812-1879 --Correspondence. Binney, Amos, 1803-1847 --Correspondence. Calhoun, John C. 1782-1850 --Correspondence. Cheves, Langdon, 1776-1857 --Correspondence. Cooper, Thomas, 1759-1839 --Correspondence. Dana, James Dwight, 1813-1895 --Correspondence. De Bow, J. D. B. 1820-1867 --Correspondence. De Saussure, Henry William, 1763-1839 --Correspondence. Ellet, Charles, 1810-1862 --Correspondence. Ellet, E. F. 1818-1877 --Correspondence. Espy, James P. 1785-1860 --Correspondence. Forster, Alex M.--Correspondence. Gould, Benjamin Apthorp, 1824-1896 --Correspondence. Gray, Asa, 1810-1888 --Correspondence. Grimké, Thomas Smith, 1786-1834 --Correspondence. Haldeman, Samuel Stehman, 1812-1880 --Correspondence. Henry, Joseph, 1797-1878 --Correspondence. Herrick, Edward Claudius, 1811-1862 --Correspondence. LeConte, John L. 1825-1883 --Correspondence. LeConte, Joseph, 1823-1901 --Correspondence. Loomis, Elias, 1811-1889 --Correspondence. Lovering, Joseph, 1813-1892 --Correspondence. Manigault, Gabriel E. 1833-1899 --Correspondence. Markoe, Francis, 1801-1871 --Correspondence. Maury, Matthew Fontaine, 1806-1873 --Correspondence. Memminger, C. G. 1803-1888 --Correspondence. Paine, Robert Treat, 1835-1910 --Correspondence. Petigru, James Louis, 1789-1863 --Correspondence. Pinckney, Charles Cotesworth, 1746-1825 --Correspondence. Redfield, W. C. 1789-1857 --Correspondence. Ritchie, E. S.--Correspondence. Runkle, John Daniel, 1822-1902 --Correspondence. Sparks, Jared, 1789-1866 --Correspondence. Stimpson, William, 1832-1872 --Correspondence. Storer, David Humphreys, 1804-1891 --Correspondence. Trescot, William Henry, 1822-1898 --Correspondence. Tuomey, M. 1805-1857 --Correspondence. Winlock, Joseph, 1826-1875 --Correspondence. Wurdemann, William--Correspondence. Gibbs family.
American Association for the Advancement of Science. College of Charleston. Smithsonian Institution.