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Vallancey, Charles (1721-1812)
British general, engineer.
Military Itinerary of the South of Ireland, 1796. 1 vol. (70 pp.).

Vallancey was the Chief Engineer of Ireland. This manuscript pertains to the defense of Ireland from an anticipated French invasion. It contains his observations on the weak defensive situation as it existed in southern Ireland and his prescriptions for strengthening them.

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Van Cleef, Eugene
Geographer
Papers, 1906-1973. 5 lin. feet

A geographer from Ohio State University, Eugene Van Cleef was a specialist on Finns and Finnish immigrants to the United States, on the applications of geography to foreign trade and international commerce, and a pioneer in urban geography.

The Van Cleef Papers contain 5 linear feet of personal and professional correspondence and other materials reflecting Van Cleef's varied interests in applied geography, foreign trade, and Finns. Of particular note is an autobiographical manuscript, discussing the intellectual origins of his interests in geography and giving a concise perspective on his views of the discipline.

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Van Vleck, John Hasbrouck (1889-1980)
Physicist. APS 1939.
Papers, 1923-1959. 189 items.

These contain a few notes and memoranda by Van Vleck, but the bulk of the collection is letters to and from him. Correspondents include: Raymond T. Birge, Gerhard H. Dieke, Paul Dirac, Edwin C. Kemble, and Robert S. Mulliken.

This forms part of the Archives for the History of Quantum Physics. A complete listing of this microfilm collection appears in: Sources for the History of Quantum Physics, Thomas S. Kuhn, et al., ed. (Philadelphia, 1967).

Table of contents (4 pp.).

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Varley, C. J.
Journal of Astronomical Observations, 1845-1858. 1 vol. (25 pp.)

A member of a family of early 19th century artists and instrument makers that included Cornelius, John, and William Fleetwood Varley, C. J. Varley shared in the family interests in astronomy.

The Journal of Astronomical Observations includes brief notes on telescopic observations of comets, stars, and planets conducted by C. J. Varley between 1845 and 1858, accompanied by twenty ink and watercolor sketches.

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Vater, Johann Severin (1771-1826)
German theologian and philologist. APS 1817.
An enquiry into the origin of the population of America from the old Continent, ca. 1820. 1 vol. (184 pp.).

Translated by Peter S. Du Ponceau from the author's Untersuchungen über Amerikas Bevölkerung aus dem alten Kontinente (Leipzig, 1810). It was Du Ponceau's opinion that Vater was moved to write his book by Benjamin Smith Barton's New Views of the Origin of the Tribes and Nations of America, which Vater often quoted.

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Vaughan, Benjamin (1751-1835)
Diplomat, political economist, agriculturist. APS 1786.
Papers. 1746-1900. ca. 5000 items.

Letters (including some transcripts and photostats) from and to Vaughan from many American and British correspondents.

Also personal correspondence and business papers of Benjamin, Charles, Petty, Samuel Sr., Samuel Jr., William, William Oliver, and Sarah Vaughan (2 boxes); lectures, mostly in shorthand (3 vols.); a large number of notes and memoranda on a wide variety of topics, such as agriculture, architecture, astronomy, diplomacy, diseases, dueling, electricity, hieroglyphs, internal improvements, medicine, meteorology, land, manufactures, politics, punctuation, religion, silk- manufacturing, stock-breeding, taxation, Unitarianism, Benjamin Franklin, John Locke, Napoleon I, Joseph Priestley, Bowdoin College, town of Hallowell, Me.; notes on the peace negotiations, 1782-1783; miscellaneous legal papers; genealogy of the Abbott-Vaughan families. For a personal account of the collection, see Mrs. Mary Vaughan Marvin, "The Benjamin Vaughan Papers," APS Proc. 95 (1951): 246-249.

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Vaughan, John (1755-1841)
Merchant; librarian and secretary, APS. APS 1784
Papers, 1768-1841. ca. 450 items (8 boxes).

This is mainly correspondence relating to: French and English politics, business, and trade (ca. 1778 82); his immigration to America; Joseph Priestley; vaccines and innoculation (with Jefferson's comments on same); Vaughan's business in Philadelphia; and the APS.

There is correspondence with Pierre, E. I., and Victor Marie du Pont, 1801-1816 (photostats from Eleutherian Mills Historical Library); with George W. Featherstonhaugh (photostats from Mrs. duane Featherstonhaugh); Vaughan's commonplace book, 1783 (ca. 66 pp.; B V 462.c), with its comments on Rush, Rittenhouse and his orrery, Priestley, Franklin, Washington, and Jefferson; another commonplace book entitled, "J. Vaughan's book," May 17, 1779 (47 pp. in Latin; 870/L34); inventory and other documents relating to his estate, 1841. The collection includes verses written for Vaughan by William H. Furness, 1826, and verses and a song prepared for the Vaughan Club by Benjamin M. Hollinshead and William Norris, 1839, 1841. There are also 2 boxes of papers relating to Vaughan's administration of the estate of Samuel Merrick, Philadelphia importer, 1796-1822. There are also boxes containing the Madeira-Vaughan Collection (1768-1922): miscellaneous letters of members of the Madeira family to or from, among others: Edward Everett Hale, Washington Irving, Harriet Martineau, Richard Peters, Jr., Agnes Repplier, Roger B. Taney, and Daniel Webster; the journal of a voyage on the ship Sampson, 1819, a letter of Jan Ingenhousz to Jonathan Williams, many letters to Jacob Snider, etc. Correspondents include:

• John Adams
• George Bancroft
• Nathaniel Bowditch
• Aaron Burr
• Parker Cleaveland
• Thomas Cooper
• Edward Everett
• Benjamin Franklin
• William Temple Franklin
• Richard Harrison
• John Jay
• Thomas Jefferson
• Dolly P. Madison
• James Monroe
• Joseph Priestley
• Jared Sparks
• Marquis de Talleyrand
• Benjamin Vaughan
• Samuel Vaughan, Sr.
• William Vaughan
• George Washington
• Benjamin Waterhouse

Table of contents (27 pp.).

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Vaughan, Samuel (1720-1802)
Merchant, philanthropist, horticulturist. APS 1784
Journal of a tour through Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Virginia, June 18-September 4, 1787. 1 vol. Photostat. (45 pp.).

The Pennsylvania portion of the journal, through July 13, has been printed, with full annotation, by Edward G. Williams in Western Pennsylvania Historical Magazine 44 (1961): 51-65.

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Vaughan Club
Papers, 1838-1841. ca. 50 pp.

This was a social drinking club, named after APS member and officer, John Vaughan, who, among other things, was a Philadelphia wine merchant. There are letters, songs, menus, etc. Members included William Strickland, N. Chapman, A. D. Bache, R. Dunglison, and others, who brought their bottles already decanted and ready to drink.

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Vaux, George
Papers, 1738-1985. ca.650 items (3.5 lin. feet).

The George Vaux Papers center on the family and business concerns of the surgeon, George Vaux V (1721-1803), and his lineal descedants, George Vaux VII, and George Vaux VIII (1832-1915). Many of the Vauxes, Quakers, were involved in charitable and reform activities, including anti-slavery, poor relief, and Indian missions. Other, related families represented in the collection are the Warders, Sansoms, Heads, Graffs, Morrises, Cressons, and Mayberrys.

The 18th century material includes the trans-Atlantic correspondence of James, Richard, and George V, along with domestic correspondence relating to family and business affairs. Several letters discuss Philadelphia during the British occupation, and seven discuss yellow fever in 1797-1798, with a particularly fine letter by Ann Warder discussing the epidemic of 1798. The participation of George Vaux VII in a Quaker mission to the Seneca Indians in 1803 is well documented. Later correspondence, almost all personal and familial in nature, documents the interest of George Vaux VIII in mineralogy, his travels abroad, and Vaux genealogy.

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Vaux, Roberts (1786-1836)
Philanthropist. APS 1819.
Address on the impolicy of slavery, January 1, 1824. 37 pp.

Delivered in Philadelphia before an association formed for the education of men of colour. Vaux shows how slavery adversely affects the interest, happiness, and safety of the owner, slave, society and government.

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Viereck, Henry Lorenz (1881-1926)
Entomologist
Papers, 1894-1926. Film. 7 reels.

From Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. An extensive correspondence, including copies of outgoing letters. Correspondents include Henry Bird, J. Chester Bradley, Wilton E. Britton, Charles T. Brues, Melbourn A. Carriker, Arthur Classen, Frederic E. Clements, Leland O. Howard, and Henry Skinner. All correspondents, with the number of letters from each, are listed in Venia T. Phillips, Guide to the Manuscript Collections in the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (1963).

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Vigny, Alfred Victor, Comte de (1797-1863)
Writer. Hoefer
Manuscripts. Film. 2 reels.

These include the manuscript of Cinq-Mars, Stello, and Poèmes. These were located and filmed by Irving Massey in 1959, from originals in the Musée Condé, Chantilly, France, and in a private collection in France.

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Voegelin, Charles Frederick (1906-1986)
Anthropologist, linguist
Papers, 1934-ca.1970. 34.5 lin. ft.

Trained as an anthropologist at Berkeley under A.L. Kroeber and Robert Lowie, Carl Voegelin spent the majority of his career as a structural linguist specializing in Native American languages. His most significant contributions came through his studies of Delaware, Shawnee, and Hopi, but he is also credited with reviving the International Journal of American Linguistics after the death of its founder, Franz Boas, and with nurturing the program in anthropology at Indiana University, where he was on faculty from 1941 until his retirement in 1976.

The Voegelin collection contains field notes, lexical files, notebooks, papers, correspondence, and other materials relating to Voegelin's work on Native American languages. The bulk of the collection concerns Delaware and Shawnee, but there is significant material for Blackfoot, Menominee, Ojibwa and Potawatomi, Seneca, and Penobscot. Notes on Turkish, kept during the Second World War, are also present. Among other important series in the collection are Voegelin's correspondence and notes concerning two of his major projects: the translation and interpretation of the Walam Olam and his study of Shawnee law.

Correspondents include Leonard Bloomfield, Eli Lilly, and Morris Swadesh. A portion of the collection is indexed in Kendall (1982).

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Voight, Henry and Thomas
Philadelphia instrument makers
Papers, 1788-1839. 16 items.

Letters, deeds, receipts. There are several letters concerning the ordering and delivery of scales to various banks, the Farmers Bank of Virginia being one, and the U. S. Bank in Savannah, Georgia (see the letters of Eleazer Early) being another. There are numerous documents relating to the Voights. There is also a copy of a letter from Elias Boudinot of the U.S. Mint in Philadelphia concerning directions for closing the Mint in case of a yellow fever outbreak (1803).

Table of contents (1 p.).

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Volapük
Collection, ca. 1885-1895. 0.25 lin. feet

Created by the German priest Johann Martin Schleyer in 1879, Volapuk ("World's Speech") was the first artificial language to gain wide spread popularity as a prospective form of universal communication. During the 1880s, Volapuk clubs were formed throughout Europe and the Americas, with a particularly active center in eastern Massachussetts, however it was gradually replaced by its somewhat less elaborate rival, Esperanto.

The Volapuk Collection includes printed materials, ephemera, and small number of letters and postcards written in Volapuk. Assembled by F. L. Hutchins of Worcester, Mass., a leading American Volapukist, the collection reflects the brief, but intense international interest in the potential of Volapuk to become a lingua franca of business and a medium for exchange across borders, and it conveys some of the excitement its adherents felt at its potential.

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Voltaire, François Marie Arouet de (1694-1778)
Philosophe.
Letters. Photocopies, Film. 8 boxes.

Principally letters by Voltaire, collected from various places. They are described and listed in Ira O. Wade, "The Search for a New Voltaire," APS Trans. 48, 4 (1958).

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Voorhis, Paul
Collector
Musquakie texts, n.d. Recording. 9 reels.

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Vries, Hugo de (1848-1935)
Geneticist. APS 1903.
Correspondence, 1904-1933. 443 pp. Typescript.

These are typed transcripts of letters between Hugo De Vries and Miss Elizabeth Day Palmer. It is friendly professional correspondence concerning his visits to the U. S. and his research in genetics.

Restricted access.

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