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Preferred Citation

[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], William Henry Edwards (1822-1909) Papers, A&M 1951, West Virginia and Regional History Center, West Virginia University Libraries, Morgantown, West Virginia.

Scope and Contents

444 letters. Subjects include: coal lands in W. Va., Lepidoptera collection, scientific publications, and research on butterflies.

Correspondents: L. Agassiz, D.T. Ansted, John Akhurst, V.V. Baird, Wm. H. Ashmead, Addison Ballard, N.W. Bates, Jacob Boll, George H. Briggs, Albert S. Brekimore, A.J. Butler, John H. Cook, E.R. Crotch, George Dimmock, Rudolph Feider, J. Fletcher, P.H. Gosse, Edward H. Griffin, Ferdinando Grist, Albert Hopkins, W.F. Kirby, Ludwig Kumbein, Theodore L. Mead, R. Meldola, Charles Sedgwick Minot, Samuel F.B. Morse, Tho. G. Morris, T.A. Osborne, Baron von Osten-Sachen, Edward Palmer, S.H. Peabody, T.R. Peale, Chris H. Roberts, Francis G. Linbon, R.R. Rawley, Wm. Stimpson and P.R. Uhler.

Related Material

1373, 1614, 1951

Subjects and Indexing Terms

• Butterflies
• Coal mining.
• Diaries and journals.
• Edwards, William Henry.
• Entomology
• Land.
• Morse, Samuel Finley Breese, 1791-1872
• Peabody, Selim H. (Selim Hobart), 1829-1903