An Inventory of His Collection at the Harry Ransom Center
Creator:
Dancer, John Benjamin,
1812-1887
Title:
John Benjamin Dancer Collection
Dates:
1764-1928, undated
Extent:
1 document box, 1 oversize box (2.42 linear feet)
Abstract:
Includes one manuscript and one
letter by the English instrument maker, optician, and photographic inventor John
Benjamin Dancer. The bulk of the collection is made of letters received by Dancer
from colleagues (including George Biddell Airy, Charles Darwin, Sir John Herschel,
James Joule, and Charles Piazzi Smyth among others) and materials relating to
Dancer
or his family, including personal family records.
Call Number:
Manuscript Collection MS-1052
Language:
English and
Latin
Access:
Open for research
Administrative Information
Processed by:
Joan Sibley and Jamie Hawkins-Kirkham, 2011
Note: This finding aid replicates and replaces information
previously available only in a card catalog. Please see the explanatory note at
the
end of this finding aid for information regarding the arrangement of the manuscripts
as well as the abbreviations commonly used in descriptions.
