Call Number:

C0345

Repository:

Princeton University Library: Manuscripts Division

Extent:

• 4 boxes
• 1.3 linear feet

Language:

English

Preferred Citation:

Identification of specific item; Date (if known); C. A. Young Correspondence, Box and Folder Number; Special Collections, Princeton University Library.

Date:

1873-1897 (inclusive)

Creator:

Princeton University. Library. Special Collections and Young, Charles A. (Charles Augustus), 1834-1908

Form:

Charts -- 19th century., Correspondence -- 19th century, Graphs -- 19th century., and Manuscripts -- 19th century.

Abstract:

Consists, for the most part, of letters written to nineteenth-century Princeton astronomer C. A. Young by other astronomers and scientific instrument makers.

A professor of astronomy at Princeton (1877-1905) and the first director of its Observatory, C. A. Young was an authority on the sun and a pioneer in spectrum analysis.

The collection consists, for the most part, of letters written to Young by other astronomers, such as N. M. Paul of the United States Naval Observatory and Leonard Waldo of Harvard, and by clock, astronomical, and scientific instrument manufacturers, including Howard Grubb, Fauth and Co., E. Howard and Co., and Edward Kahler. In addition, there are some drawings of astronomical instruments and a few bank books.

Further accessions include measures (1879) of the polar and equatorial diameters of the planet Mars by Prof. Young at the Observatory of the John C. Green School of Science, Princeton University, and an autograph manuscript with 12 sheets of figures on graph paper from the G. P. Kuiper Scientific Collection. Also included are letters from Simon Newcomb concerning discussions with Stephen H. Emmens in February and March 1897, and two letters from Young to Stephen Alexander discussing equipment for the astronomical observatory to be built on the "Olden lot" on Prospect Ave. in Princeton.

Arranged in alphabetical order.