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  • Classification number: 3P
  • Title of Record Series: Sarah Frances Whiting
  • Record Group: Faculty
  • Sub Group: Individuals
  • Date: March 8, 1982
  • Accession Number: A78-10
  • Source: Mr. Scott Birney; existing files
  • Restrictions: none
  • Volume: 2 boxes
Description:

Papers of Sarah Prances Whiting, Professor of Physics and Astronomy, dating from 1859-1927; consisting of personal and business correspondence, letters from noted scientists and from lecturers and speakers at Wellesley, also 3 scrapbooks containing newspaper clippings of science news and stories about Wellesley College; a guest book, and a book of pencil drawings by Miss Whiting.

Box 1
  • General
  • Correspondence: Adams - Little
  • Correspondence: Lodge - Wells
  • Correspondence: Whiting - Wilkinson
  • Letters from noted scientists
  • Letters from speakers and lecturers at Wellesley College
  • Original poem given to Mrs. J. Fiske by S. F. Whiting
  • S. F. Whiting's notes for speeches and addresses (1984-1916)
  • S. F. Whiting's notes for speeches and addresses (undated)
Box 2
  • Guest book of S. F. Whiting; Book of drawings by S. F. Whiting
  • Scrapbook 1 (1877-1884)
  • Scrapbook 2 (1884-1886)
  • Scrapbook 3 (1887-1888)
List of correspondents:
  • Abbott, Lyman
  • Adams, William Grylls
  • Ayrton, William E.
  • Barker, George F.
  • Bean, Mary L.
  • Beck, Joseph
  • Beecher, Willis J.
  • Bishop, M. E.
  • Bradford, A. H.
  • Briggs, C. A.
  • Calkins, Wolcott
  • Clark, Edward L.
  • Clerke, Agnes M.
  • Coffin, Charles C.
  • Converse, E. S.
  • Cross, Charles R.
  • Curtis, Olin A.
  • Cuyler, Theodore L.
  • Davis, W. M.
  • Dewar, Sir James
  • Dickermann, Lysander
  • Dolbear, A. E.
  • Dunning, A. E.
  • Duryea, Joseph T.
  • Eastman, J. R.
  • Farlow, Lilian H.
  • Fessenden, Susan S.
  • Fisher, George P.
  • Fiske, Charlotte N.
  • Fitz, Eustace C.
  • Foster, G. Carey
  • Fox, Anna M.
  • Goodall, G. L.
  • Hall, Edwin H.
  • Hardy, Alpheus
  • Harris, J. Rendel
  • Higginson, Storrow
  • Hobbs, William Hebert
  • Hofmann, A. W.
  • Holman, S. W.
  • Houghton, W. S.
  • Huggins, Lady Margaret
  • Kimball, A. S.
  • Little, Arthur
  • Lockyer, Sir Norman
  • Lodge, Sir Olver
  • Lorentz, Hendrik Antoon
  • Lovering, J.
  • Loyson, Emilie Hyacinthe
  • Lyon, D. G.
  • MacAll, R. W.
  • McKenzie, Alexander
  • Mendenhall, T. C.
  • Murdock, J. N.
  • Paton, John C.
  • Peloubet, F. N.
  • Pierson, Arthur
  • Porter, Edward G.
  • Quaritch, Bernard
  • Ramabai
  • Ramsey, W.
  • Rayleigh, Lord Robert J.
  • Ready, William Talbot
  • Rockefeller, Laura Spelman
  • Rodgers, William A.
  • Ronythaler, Rev. Edward
  • Scudder, Samuel
  • Seelye, Laurence Clark
  • Shaw, S.
  • Smith, Judson
  • Stetson, Amos W.
  • Stimson, Henry A.
  • Taylor, William M.
  • Tetlow, John
  • Thomas, M. Carey
  • Thompson, Silvanus Phillips
  • Thomson, Sir John Arthur
  • Trowbridge, John
  • Walker, Francis A.
  • Webb, E. B.
  • Wells, Amos R.
  • Wilkinson, M. W.
  • Whiting, Harold
  • Whiting, Sarah Francis

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