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  • Repository: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library X
  • Subject: Linguists' writings X

James Gates Percival collection

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Call Number: YCAL MSS 703
Abstract: The James Gates Percival Collection consist of writings, notebooks, personal papers, correspondence, maps, and other papers that document Percival's life and work. Writings are autograph manuscripts of poetry and prose compositions on linguistics, geology, and geography, including several drafts of his Report on the Geology of Connecticut, as well as chemistry notes by West Point professor James Cutbush. Percival's notebooks contain writings and notes on a broad range of topics in addition...
Dates: 1800-1944, bulk 1820-1850