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Mouillard-Chanute letters (in French), 1890-1897

Summary

Collection ID:
SIL-RR.TL540.C45A2
Creators:
Mouillard, Louis-Pierre, 1834-1897
Chanute, Octave, 1832-1910
Young, Pearl I.
Dates:
1890-1897
Languages:
French
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Physical Description:
1 Volume
[2], 337 [i.e. 346] leaves
ill.
28 cm.
Repository:

Administration

Existence and Location of Originals note
Library of Congress. Manuscript Division.

More Information

General note

General note
Title transcribed from typed t.p.
General note
Carbon copy of the original typewritten transcript housed in the Manuscript Division of the Library of Congress. The date of creation for the transcript is unknown.
General note
Leaves are printed on the recto side only.
General note
Letters that are missing from the series but known to have existed are cited in chronological order.
General note
The adjusted leaf count includes leaves numbered 103A, 116A-116B, 132A-132B, 197A, 311A-311B, and 337A.

Local Notes

Local Notes
NASMRB copy 39088013423306 has accession no.: 6346-9 [Institute of the Aeronautical Sciences, copy 2].
A note on leaf [2] (1st group) is signed in ms. ink "PIY", for Pearl I. Young, who oversaw the English translation of the Chanute-Mouillard correspondence in 1962.
NASMRB copy has a blue buckram library binding with white lettered spine.


Keywords

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