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[Newsletter for the Association of Manhattan Project scientists in the New York City area]

Written by Bonner, a Manhattan Project scientist and present-day professor emeritus of chemistry at the State University of New York. He writes as Secretary of the Executive Committee. Introductory note on first page indicates that the association...

GLC03152.05

[Bonner's notes related to a recent meeting of the Association of Manhattan Project scientists in the New York City area]

Written by Bonner, a Manhattan Project scientist and present-day professor emeritus of chemistry at the State University of New York. At the time this note was written, Bonner was Secretary of the Executive Committee of the Association of Manhattan...

GLC03152.06

[To staff members of Columbia University, S.A.M. Laboratories, Division 1]

Dunning, a physicist working on the Manhattan Project, tenders his resignation as Director of Division I (at the Nash building, where Columbia University's Substitute or Special Alloy Metals Laboratory was located). Writes, "The work to which we are...

GLC03152.07

Harold Urey, scientist, dies at 87; war foe's work led to H-bomb [incomplete]

Written by Browne, a noted journalist, for the New York Times. Contains only the first page of the article. Discusses Urey's achievements, including his receipt of the 1934 Nobel Prize in chemistry for the discovery of heavy hydrogen. Describes...

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[Photograph of scientists involved with the Manhattan Project]

Depicts Drs. Irving Kaplan, Francis Bonner, Ernest O. Lawrence, and [Robert] Harrison together looking at an open volume on the table before them.

GLC03152.09

to Eliakim P. Scammon

Hayes writes as Lieutenant Colonel of the 23rd Regiment of Ohio Volunteers to Scammon, his superior, as commander of the 1st Brigade. Reports that the Confederates force that attacked at Pack's Ferry returned to the narrows. Thanks him for sending a...

GLC03204

to Virginia Farragut

Written aboard the USS Hartford. Written by Rear Admiral Farragut to his wife Virginia in Hastings on the Hudson, New York. Signed by Farragut as well as initialled after a postscript. Says he wanted to let her know he was well. Remarks that he gave...

GLC03309

General Order No. 12

Written aboard the USS Hartford. Rear Admiral Farragut, as commander of the Western Gulf Blockade Squadron, sends thanks to the crews under his command for their conduct during the Battle of Mobile Bay, which took place on 5 August 1864. Remarks...

GLC03310

Archive of Captain John Bryant, Deputy Commissary of Military Stores at the Armory in Springfield, Massachusetts [Decimalized .001-.117]

Includes letters from Henry Knox (28 letters), Henry Jackson, Samuel Hodgdon, Timothy Pickering, Benjamin Lincoln, William Simmons, John Crane, and Jonathan Jackson among others.

GLC03432

to John Bryant

Discusses administrative matters relating to Captain Bryant's pay. Notes he forwarded a certificate related to Bryant's failure to receive his commutation and says it is now out of Knox's hands. Comments he did not forward Bryant's certificate of...

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