Detailed Inventory
Walter Sydney Adams Papers
  Box 1
Request Series
Breakfast complimentary to Prof. Richard A. Procter
1881 April 9 Pr. Menu, 1p. Request Item

Autographs of attendees on verso.

Frost, Edwin Brant, 1866-1935.
To W. R. Harper
1899 Feb. 24 ALS, 3p. Request Item

Recommending Adams for fellowship.

Newcomb, Simon.
To Walter Sydney Adams
1901 June 18 ALS, 1p. Request Item
Hale , George Ellery, 1868-1938.
ALS to Walter Sydney Adams
1908 Mar. 12 ALS, 1p. Request Item

Includes card from James A. Ward, sculptor, glued to verso.

Kapteyn, J. C. (Jacobus Cornelius), 1851-1922.
To Walter Sydney Adams
1911 June 28 ALS, 3p. Request Item
Kapteyn, J. C. (Jacobus Cornelius), 1851-1922.
To Walter Sydney Adams
1911 Dec. 6 ALS, 3p. Request Item

Thanks for the radial velocities; I anxious for better information on A stars. Sends list of all stars to magnitude 9'0 within 15 to the pole.

Gates, Henry C..
To Ferdinand Ellerman
1913 Mar. 25 TLS, 1p. Request Item
Julien, W. H..
To Charles E. St. John
1914 July 21 ALS, 4p. Request Item

Re: spectroscopic observations and theory.

Plummer, H. S..
To Walter Sydney Adams
1914 Sept. 23 ALS, 1p. Request Item
Turner, H. H..
To Walter Sydney Adams
1917 Jan. 12 ALS, 2p. Request Item

Congratulations on receiving the Gold Medal.

Newall, Hugh Frank, 1871-.
To Walter Sydney Adams
1917 Jan. 14 ALS, 1p. Request Item

Congratulations on receiving the Gold Medal.

Dyson , Frank Watson, 1868-1939 .
To Walter Sydney Adams
1917 Feb. 8 ALS, 2p. Request Item

Congratulations on receiving the Gold Medal.

Aitken, Robert G..
To Walter Sydney Adams
1917 Feb. 15 ALS, 1p. Request Item

Congratulations on receiving the Gold Medal.

Turner, H. H..
To Walter Sydney Adams
1917 Feb. 27 ALS, 2p. Request Item

"The distraction of the war is serious... It is overdue that our cousins over the water should join us in stamping on this mad dog -- terribly strong & terribly mad."

Kapteyn, J. C. (Jacobus Cornelius), 1851-1922.
To Walter Sydney Adams
1917 Mar. 26 ALS, 2p. Request Item

Congratulations on receiving the Gold Medal.

Dyson , Frank Watson, 1868-1939 .
To Walter Sydney Adams
1917 Dec. 28 ALS, 4p. Request Item

"If this war induces the same friendly feelings between Americans & Englishmen generally as exist and have existed over now for some time between the Astronomers of the two countries it will not have been altogether in vain. However, we hope for more than that. I am convinced that if only a democratic government could arise in Germany there would before many years be an era of good-will. Unfortunately the prospect does not seem very near..."

Jeans, James Hopwood, Sir, 1877-1946.
To Walter Sydney Adams
1918 Jan. 1 ALS, 4p. Request Item

Certainly is rotation in Andromeda, "am inclined to think the numbers probably represent a linear law corresponding to a rigid body rotation."

Turner, H. H..
To Walter Sydney Adams
1918 Jan. 1 ALS, 3p. Request Item

Foresees tough year with the war, Germany having the advantage, but "the U.S. are very, very welcome now."

Campbell, W. W..
To Walter Sydney Adams
1918 Apr. 10 TLS, 1p. Request Item

Seeking lantern slide of the Andromeda nebula showing the new stars discovered at Mount Wilson.

Pickering, William H..
To Walter Sydney Adams
1919 Mar. 22 ALS, 1p. Request Item
Kapteyn, J. C. (Jacobus Cornelius), 1851-1922.
To Walter Sydney Adams
1919 July 25 ALS, 1p. Request Item
Turner, H. H..
To Walter Sydney Adams
1919 Aug. 1 ALS, 2p. Request Item
Jones, H. Spencer, (Harold Spencer), 1890- .
To Walter Sydney Adams
1919 Aug. 7 ALS, 4p. Request Item

Problems in obtaining optical glass since the war; flint glass (re: firms Wood and Derby, Chance).

Newall, Hugh Frank, 1871-.
To Walter Sydney Adams
1919 Aug. 12 ALS, 1p. Request Item
Wood, R. W..
To Ferdinand Ellerman
1919 Nov. 10 PC, 1p. Request Item
Hale , George Ellery, 1868-1938.
Address at the retirement of Dr. Woodward
1920 TMsS, 2p. Request Item
Sliphen, V. M..
To Charles E. St. John
1921 July 15 TLS, 1p. Request Item

Re: high dispersion spectra and the atmosphere of Venus.

Arrhenius, Svante, 1859-1927.
To George E. Hale
1922 July 9 ALS, 1p. Request Item

Possibilities for building a new observatory for the Swedish Academy of Sciences.

Thomson, Elihu.
To Walter Sydney Adams
1922 Aug. 3 TLS, 2p. Request Item

Re: production of quartz disks and quartz tubing.

Gregory, R. A..
To Walter Sydney Adams
1922 Dec. 3 ALS, 2p. Request Item

Editorial duties at Nature precent him from concentrating exclusively on any one science.

Shapley, Harlow, 1885-1972.
To Walter Sydney Adams
1924 Feb. 4 TLS, 1p. Request Item

Will soon complete photometric study of HV 3435 and are now interested in Alpha Circini and similar objects because of the ionized strontium lines and low temperature calcium lines.

Schlesinger, Frank.
To Walter Sydney Adams
1924 Feb. 5 TLS, 1p. Request Item

Regarding his publication of spectroscopic parallaxes.

Eddington, Arthur Stanley, Sir, 1882-1944 .
To Walter Sydney Adams
1924 Feb. 6 ALS, 2p. Request Item

Regarding implications of the spectrum of the companion of Sirius.

Jeans, James Hopwood, Sir, 1877-1946.
To Walter Sydney Adams
1924 May 29 TLS, 1p. Request Item

Will visit in early September at Hubble's invitation. Jeans will have wife and child with him, "but they will not interfere in any way with astronomical activities."

Pritchett, Henry S., (Henry Smith), 1857-1939.
To Walter Sydney Adams
1924 July 7 ALS, 2p. Request Item
Birkhoff, George David, 1884-1944.
To Walter Sydney Adams
1924 Oct. 4 ALS, 2p. Request Item
Day, Arthur L..
To Walter Sydney Adams
1924 Oct. 13 TLS, 1p. Request Item
Sitter, Willem de.
To Walter Sydney Adams
1925 Jan. 24 ALS, 1p. Request Item

The lecture he gave at Princeton on the size of the universe will be published in the publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific.

Abbot, C. G..
To Walter Sydney Adams
1925 Jan. 26 TLS, 1p. Request Item

Smithsonian engaged in million dollar endowment drive.

Hale , George Ellery, 1868-1938.
To Walter Sydney Adams
1927 Sept. 8 ALS, 1p. Request Item

Frost wants 12 inch Kenwood reflective retruned.

Hale , George Ellery, 1868-1938.
To Walter Sydney Adams
ca.1927 LS, 1p. Request Item

Congratulations on birth of their child.

Russell, Henry Norris, 1877-1957.
To Walter Sydney Adams
1930 Mar. 21 ALS, 4p. Request Item

Good news about Mount Wilson. Account of trip to Middle East.

Hale , George Ellery, 1868-1938.
To Walter Sydney Adams
1930 Oct. 24 PC, 1p. Request Item

Thanks for the roses.

Newall, Hugh Frank, 1871-.
To Walter Sydney Adams
1935 June 5 ALS, 1p. Request Item

Invitation to dinner.

Jeans, James Hopwood, Sir, 1877-1946.
To T. Spicer-Simson
1937 Nov. 11 TLS, 1p. Request Item
Escanglon, S. (Observatoire de Paris).
To Walter Sydney Adams
1938 Jan. 8 ALS, 1p. Request Item

In French. Thanks for the letter of Mrs. Adams.

Compton, Arthur Holly, 1892-1962.
To Walter Sydney Adams
1938 Feb. 28 ALS, 3p. Request Item

Doubts about whether Keener's photoelectric method will supplant the photographic method, but it has the merit of quantifying intensity.

Newall, Hugh Frank, 1871-.
To Walter Sydney Adams
1938 May 19 ALS, 2p. Request Item

Death of George E. Hale.

Eddington, Arthur Stanley, Sir, 1882-1944 .
Address to the members of the International Astronomical Union
[1938] AMs, 2p. Request Item
Bush, Vannevar, 1890-1974.
To Walter Sydney Adams
1939 Oct. 12 TLS, 1p. Request Item
Milne, E. A..
To unidentified recipient
ALS, n.d. 1p. (inc.) Request Item


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