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    <title>Edward Williams Morley papers, 1833-1923 (bulk 1863-1899)</title>
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    <namePart>Morley, Edward Williams</namePart>
    <namePart type="date">1838-1923</namePart>
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  <abstract>Correspondence, certificates, and printed matter.  Consists primarily of correspondence from family members, friends, and fellow scientists.  Includes a group of personal letters from Myron A. Munson, Morley's college roommate and lifelong friend, some written while Munson was serving in the Union Army in 1864, and an extensive correspondence with a number of prominent European and American scientists.  Subjects include Albert Einstein's theory of relativity, the atomic weight of hydrogen, automobiles, densities of oxygen and hydrogen and the ratio in which they combine to form water, the electric streetcar, the Michelson-Morley experiment, and the typewriter.  Correspondents include Henry Edward Armstrong, Herbert Brereton Baker, R. Börnstein, Wilhelm Böttger, Charles Francis Brush, Frank Wigglesworth Clarke, Edward Salisbury Dana, James Dwight Dana, Harold Baily Dixon, Hugo Erdmann, Phillippe-Auguste Guye, Edward Hart, Walther Hempel, Francis Hobart Herrick, W.M. Hicks, Sir William Higgins, F.F. Jewett, Baron William Thomson Kelvin, S.P. Langley, Joseph Larmor, Thomas C. Mendenhall, Albert A. Michelson, Dayton Clarence Miller, Charles E. Munroe, William A. Noyes, Wilhelm Ostwald, Henry S. Pritchett, F.W. Putnam, William Ramsay, Baron John William Strutt Rayleigh, Ira Remsen, William A. Rogers, Frederick Soddy, and W.F.G. Swan.</abstract>
  <note>Open to research.</note>
  <note>Chemist and physician.</note>
  <note>Collection material in English.</note>
  <note>Some photographs transferred to Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.</note>
  <note xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xlink:href="http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms009263">Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms009263</note>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Einstein, Albert</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1879-1955</namePart>
    </name>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Armstrong, Henry Edward</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1848-1937</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Baker, Herbert Brereton</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1862-1935</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Börnstein, R. (Richard)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1852-1913</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Böttger, Wilhelm</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1871-</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Brush, Charles Francis</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1849-1929</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Clarke, Frank Wigglesworth</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1847-1931</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Dana, Edward Salisbury</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1849-1935</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Dana, James Dwight</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1813-1895</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Dixon, Harold Baily</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1852-1930</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Erdmann, Hugo</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1862-1910</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Guye, Phillippe-Auguste</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1862-1922</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Hart, Edward</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1854-</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Hempel, Walther</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1851-1916</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Herrick, Francis Hobart</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1858-1940</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Hicks, W. M. (William Mitchinson)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1850-1934</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart type="termsOfAddress">Sir</namePart>
      <namePart>Higgins, William</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1824-1910</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Jewett, F. F. (Frank Fanning)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1844-1926</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart type="termsOfAddress">Baron</namePart>
      <namePart>Kelvin, William Thomson</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1824-1907</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Langley, S. P. (Samuel Pierpont)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1834-1906</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Larmor, Joseph</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1857-1942</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Mendenhall, Thomas C. (Thomas Corwin)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1841-1924</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Michelson, Albert A. (Albert Abraham)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1852-1931</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Miller, Dayton Clarence</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1866-1941</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Munroe, Charles E. (Charles Edward)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1849-1938</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Munson, Myron A. (Myron Andrews)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1835-</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Noyes, William A. (William Albert)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1857-1941</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Ostwald, Wilhelm</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1853-1932</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Pritchett, Henry S. (Henry Smith)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1857-1939</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Putnam, F. W. (Frederic Ward)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1839-1915</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Ramsay, William</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1852-1916</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart type="termsOfAddress">Baron</namePart>
      <namePart>Rayleigh, John William Strutt</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1842-1919</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Remsen, Ira</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1846-1927</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Rogers, William A. (William Augustus)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1832-1898</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Soddy, Frederick</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1877-1956</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Swann, W. F. G. (William Francis Gray)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1884-1962</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Atomic weights</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Automobiles</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Cable cars (Streetcars)</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Chemistry</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Hydrogen</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Oxygen</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Physics</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Relativity (Physics)</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Science</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Typewriters</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Water</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>United States</geographic>
    <topic>History</topic>
    <temporal>Civil War, 1861-1865</temporal>
    <topic>Personal narratives</topic>
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    <occupation>Chemists</occupation>
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  <subject authority="itoamc">
    <occupation>Physicists</occupation>
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