Manuscript & Correspondence Archive

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From: Basse, Eliane
Date: 1928
Language: French

FULL TEXT on request

KEYWORDS: List | Fossil | Bull. Soc. Géol. France

From: Bianchi, Remo
To: King, Elbert A.
Date: 27 May 1982
Language: English

FULL TEXT on request

KEYWORDS: Bologna University | R. Pirani | Renazzo | Administration | Smithsonian | Trade

From: DuPont, James M.
To: King, Elbert A.
Date: 6 February 1980
Language: English

Good Morning Elbert: | Again I want to express my thanks and delight in receiving the meteorite specimens for exchange. | The Smyer is most unusual and interesting. Will your paper on Smyer be in Meteoritics? I certainly will look for it. | Yesterday under seperate cover I posted the following: | 1. WAYSIDE 71.4 gms | 2. LAKEWOOD 77 gms | 3. LAZBUDDIE 119 gms | 4. NAZARETH 143 gms | 5. GALACIA 55.5 gms | 6. PASAMONTE 6.6 gms [FULL TEXT]

KEYWORDS: Trade | Smyer | Pasamonte | Plainview

From: DuPont, James M.
To: King, Elbert A.
Date: 14 April 1980
Language: English

Hello Elbert - | Had to make a "fast" trip (Plastics) so I am delayed in mailing the Plainviewx in question. So tomorrow a.m. I am mailing a 42.1 gm 1/2 slice - Also a typical Plainview found 1 Mi N.W. of spot where Plainview(x) was found - both in 1979 | A map showing site is enclosed for your convenience - If it is indeed a new one - you are at liberty to do what you wish with it - I have all the remainder - and I will hold it intact until I hear from you [FULL TEXT]

KEYWORDS: Plainview | Map | Dr. Dod | Paul P. Sipiera | Edward J. Olsen

From: English, George L.
To: Merrill, George P.
Date: 1920
Language: English

Incoming

From: Etheridge, Robert, Jr.
To: Jelly, Eliza Catherine
Date: 4 April 1878
Language: English

Incoming

From: Gifford, Algernon Charles
To: See, Thomas Jefferson Jackson
Date: 19 January 1945
Language: English

Many thanks for your letter of Dec 6^th which reached me a week ago, & for so kindly sending me a copy of Book VII which has not yet arrived. I will let you know as soon as it comes. I am still going on with your 1917 and 1922 volumes, and have lent a copy of the 1922 one to S. H. Jenkinson author of "Science in New Zealand." A point I haven't come to yet is this. [FULL TEXT]

KEYWORDS: Aetheron | Mathematics | Maxwell | Bolide | Eyewitness

From: Huss, Glenn I.
To: Craig, James R.
Date: 3 March 1970
Language: English

Dear Jim: | Thank you for your letter of February 24. | The fragment which you sent is from the Zeeck specimen (sample enclosed). In the polished area are two grains of metal--as much as appears in a complete cross section. What structure remains is so warped that it is nearly impossible to make a reasonable determination of the variety to which this specimen belongs, but I would guess it is a medium octaedrite. Let me know if you need more of it. [FULL TEXT]

KEYWORDS: Zeeck | Octaedrite | Tulia | Ashmore | Meteoritical Society

From: Hutchison, Robert
To: Rubin, Alan
Date: 15 November 1983
Language: English

Dear Alan | Thank you for your letter of 29 September, received on 4 November. I am delighted that you enjoyed my book, and that you took the trouble to make specific comments. | The cratering rate I took from David Hughes' review in Nature, 1979, 281, 11, based on papers by Grieve and Robertson and Grieve and Dence. The figure given for a 1 km crater is once every 1,400 years, so my figure (p.24) of 1,300 years is in error. [FULL TEXT]

KEYWORDS: Book | Cratering rate | Antarctic meteorite | Cooling rate | Comet

From: King, Elbert A.
Date: 1964-1982
Language: English
Documents: 6

MANUSCRIPTS & CORRESPONDENCE LETTERS from Elbert A. King

Collection of file copies from the Elbert A. King estate. [LIST]

From: Krinov, E. L.
To: King, Elbert A.
Date: 10 July 1970
Language: Russian

Dear Dr. King, | In addition to my telegram from 8 July I let you know the following: | There was a fall of a block of ice that weighed 13-15kg on May 8, 1970, in town of Yagotin, Kiev district, Ukraine. Professor of Kiev University, I.S. Astapovich, was on the place of fall on June 6 and brought 0.1 liter of liquid from the melted ice. | Analysis of the liquid is not done yet but because of the fact that there were no optical, acoustic, or mechanic phenomena... [FULL TEXT]

KEYWORDS: Ice | Ukraine | I. S. Astapovich | Analysis | Terrestrial

From: LaPaz, Lincoln
Date: 4 July 1949
Language: English

This 19.8 [crossed out and replaced by 59.3] gram piece of the achondrite that fell on 1948 Feb 18 is "atypical" only in that it is partially crusted. Of the smaller fragments not 1 in 100 have been found to retain any fusion encrustation. This piece was found on Bill Janeills farms in Rockbranch township, Norton Co Kansas, within a few raods [?] of the pond [?] where he made the initial discovery. [FULL TEXT]

KEYWORDS: Achondrite | Bill Janeills | Rockbranch | Norton County | Discovery

From: Merrill, George P.
To: English, George L.
Date: 28 April 1920
Language: English

Dear Mr. English: | Yours of April 26th at hand. I agree with you that a dollar a gram for the Cumberland Falls stone is a preposterous price. The same may be said regarding the majority of sales made by dealers. I would just as leave consider a dollar a ton a fair price if others will do the same. So let's consider things on that basis and lose sight of the absolute money value altogether. [FULL TEXT]

KEYWORDS: Cumberland Falls | Price | Collection | Exchange | British Museum

From: Millett, Fortescue William
To: Burgess, E. W.
Date: 25 April 1889
Language: English

Many thanks for your paper on the Oban foraminifera which is very interesting - Although the number of species is not great - yet three recorded are mostly important, from their rarity on the British coast - The arenaceous forms are particularly interesting - | No doubt if you had more of the material the list of species might have been doubled, as many of the commonest and most universally distributed do not appear in it - [FULL TEXT]

KEYWORDS: Oban | Foraminifera | Pliocene | St. Erth beds | Lagena

From: Miquel, Jean
Date: c. 1920s
Language: French
Documents: 4

MANUSCRIPTS & CORRESPONDENCE LETTERS from Jean Miquel

Catalogues of fossils from the Jean Miquel Collection. [LIST]

From: Monnig, Oscar E.
Date: 1948-1974
Language: English
Documents: 9

MANUSCRIPTS & CORRESPONDENCE LETTERS from Oscar E. Monnig

Collection of letters from Oscar E. Monnig, including all known correspondence from Monnig to Elbert A. King as well as a letter from Monnig to a library from his time as Secretary of the Meteoritical Society. [LIST]

From: Moore, Carleton
To: King, Elbert A.
Date: 22 March 1974
Language: English

Incoming

From: Nininger, Harvey H.
To: Fales, Herbert G.
Date: 17 September 1976
Language: English

Sedona, Sept. 17, 1976 | Dear Herb: | I'm afraid I neglected an important matter relative to those 6 paperback copies of Find a Falling Star, namely the correction I always make under the picture opposite p. 222, marking out six words and inserting the name Sedona before Arizona. | Look at your copies of hardback and you will see how I do it. | It was one of Eriksson's huge blunders. I sent him pictures of both museums. He said there were too many pictures. [FULL TEXT]

KEYWORDS: Book | Find A Falling Star | Correction | Eriksson | Museum

From: Norton, Richard O.
To: Rubin, Alan
Date: 10 January 1995
Language: English

Incoming

From: Read, William F.
To: King, Elbert A.
Date: 5 July 1973
Language: English

FULL TEXT on request

KEYWORDS: Faucett | Noonan | U.S. National Museum | Staff | Lawrence University

From: Read, William F.
To: King, Elbert A.
Date: 4 September 1973
Language: English

FULL TEXT on request

KEYWORDS: Faucett | Funding | Chondrule | Apollo 14 | Ransom

From: Ridley, S. O.
To: Jelly, Eliza Catherine
Date: 24 May 1883
Language: English

Incoming

From: Robinson, James D.
To: Mignan, Arnaud N.
Date: 9 July 2011
Language: English

Dear Arnaud, | Please find enclosed a copy of my book on British meteoritic events which I hope will prove to be a worthy addition to your Tricottet Library. | Happily - please also find enclosed ~ gratis ~ a copy of my other book which I had forgotten I still had. | It is the original 'Proof' copy - still loose leafed - but as it may still retain some historical interest, I am happy for you to have it. | Hoping you find both books of some interest [FULL TEXT]

KEYWORDS: Book | Meteoric falls of the British Isles | Pseudo-meteoric events of the British Isles

From: Rubin, Alan
To: Norton, Richard O.
Date: 28 December 1994
Language: English

Dear Mr. Norton: | I have just finished reading Rocks from Space and I wanted to let you know how much I enjoyed the book. I've already recommended it to several meteorite researchers. I found the text informative and lively and was pleased by the large number of quality illustrations. I was disappointed that Tim McCoy's review of your book in Meteoritics was not more positive. [FULL TEXT]

KEYWORDS: Book | Rocks from Space | Time McCoy | Review | Leonard

From: Slotty, Leon
To: Unknown
Date: 21 October 1875
Language: French

Incoming

From: Sot, Diane M.
To: King, Elbert A.
Date: 7 March 1974
Language: English

Incoming

From: Vigelius, Williem John
To: Jelly, Eliza Catherine
Date: 27 April 1887
Language: English

Incoming

From: Unknown
Date: 1859?
Language: French

Incoming