Frederick A.P. Barnard Papers, 1830-1944, bulk circa 1855-1889

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Series III: Manuscripts and publications, 1854-1944



Box 10 Folder 12 Books, 1830, 1836, 1869

Two books by Frederick A. P. Barnard: "A Treatise on Arithmetic" (1830) and "First Lessons in Grammar" (1836), and a "Special Catalogue of the Royal Museums at Berlin" (1869), edited by Wassermann.



Box 9 Folder 1 "An Oration Delivered Before the Citizens of Tuscaloosa, Ala.", 1851



Box 10 Folder 1 "An Oration Delivered Before the Citizens of Tuscaloosa, Ala.", 1851



Box 8 Volume 1 Papers and Addresses, 1853-1889



Box 7 Volume 1 Sermons by Frederick A. P. Barnard, 1854-1856


Box 7 Volume 2 Sermons by Frederick A. P. Barnard, 1854-1860, 1872



Box 9 Folder 2 "Report on a Proposition to Modify the Plan of Instruction in the University of Alabama", 1854



Box 6 Folder 47 Handwritten copy of a letter to the editor of the Montgomery Mail, by Bishop Nicholas Hamner Cobb, 1855 May

About Frederick A. P. Barnard's election as president of the University of Alabama.



Box 7 Volume 3 Sermons by Frederick A. P. Barnard, 1855-1858



Box 6 Folder 48 Printed circular "To the People of Mississippi," by Frederick A. P. Barnard, 1856 August 19



Box 7 Volume 4 Sermons by Frederick A. P. Barnard, 1857-1858



Box 9 Folder 3 "Letter to the Honorable, the Board of Trustees of the University of Mississippi", 1858



Box 7 Volume 5 Sermons by Frederick A. P. Barnard, 1859-1861



Box 10 Folder 2 Evidences of Natural and Revealed Religion, Subjects and Divisions, circa 1859



Box 6 Folder 43 "The American Gallon at present", circa 1860s


Box 6 Folder 49 Record of the Testimony and Proceedings in the Matter of the Investigation by the Trustees of the University of Mississippi, on the 1st and 2nd of March, 1860, of the Charges made by H. R. Branham, against the Chancellor of the University, 1860



Box 10 Folder 3 Mixed meeting and lecture notes, circa 1860s-1880s



Box 7 Volume 6 University of Mississippi Class of 1861 photograph album, 1861

Includes photographs of campus, faculty, and students in the graduating class, including notes about students killed in Civil War battles or later employed as professors at other universities.



Box 6 Folder 50 Invitation to the inauguration of Frederick A. P. Barnard as President of Columbia College, 1864 September 15


Box 6 Folder 51 Programs for the inauguration of Frederick A. P. Barnard as President of Columbia College, 1864 October 3


Box 6 Folder 62 News clippings about Frederick A. P. Barnard, circa 1864-1889



Box 9 Folder 4 "Art Culture: Its Relation to National Refinement and National Morality", 1864



Box 10 Folder 4 News clippings about President Barnard, 1864, 1885



Box 6 Folder 65 Cabinet card photographs of Frederick A. P. Barnard, circa 1865-1889



Box 10 Folder 5 National Academy of Sciences annual report, 1865



Mapcase 15-J-14 "An Illustration of the American Episcopate from 1784 to 1866", circa 1866



Box 6 Folder 52 Invitation to the Columbia College School of Mines Lecture Season, 1866 October 8



Box 8 Volume 2 Addresses and Speeches, circa 1866-1889



Box 6 Folder 53 Frederick A. P. Barnard passport, 1867 January 25



Mapcase 15-J-14 Certificate of appointment as Commissioner to the Paris Universal Exposition, 1866 September 28

Signed by President Andrew Johnson.



Box 10 Folder 6 Paris Universal Exposition, 1867


Box 10 Folder 7 Biographical Memoir of Maj. E. B. Hunt, U.S.A., read before the National Academy of Sciences, 1869 August



Box 6 Folder 46 Meeting notes, circa 1870, Photostatic copy.



Box 9 Folder 5 Johnson's Illustrated Universal Cyclopedia list of contributors, circa 1870s



Box 10 Folder 8 Letter to the Editor of the Evening Post, on Johnson's Cyclopaedia, circa 1870s


Box 10 Folder 9 Conspectus, 1870 March


Box 10 Folder 10 Lecture notes on various topics, circa 1870s-1880s


Box 10 Folder 11 Mathematical games, circa 1870s-1880s



Box 9 Folder 6 "The Metric System of Weights and Measures", 1871



Box 14 Folder 5 Certificates, 1871, 1887



Box 9 Folder 7 "Modern Industrial Progress, and the Influences Accelerating its March", 1872



Box 14 Folder 6 Spettro di α Orione asservato col prisma obiettivo di Merz al refrattore di Cauchoix Febr. E Marzo 1872 al Collegio Romano, circa 1872



Box 6 Folder 54 Metrological Society meeting announcement, 1873 October 22, Photostatic copy.



Box 11 Folder 1 Vienna Universal Exposition, 1873


Box 11 Folder 2 New York Evening Post, 1874 July 29



Box 13 Volume 1 Conspectus book for Pres. Barnard, 1876



Box 11 Folder 3 American Metrological Society, circa 1876-1878

Publications, meeting notes, and manuscripts of reports.


Box 11 Folder 4 Kansas Pacific Railway Excursion from New York to Colorado, 1877 June


Box 11 Folder 5 Naval Observatory reports, 1877-1878, 1885



Box 6 Folder 45 Report on a speech about the Marquis de Lafayette by Frederick A. P. Barnard, circa 1878



Box 11 Folder 6 "Report on the Hall of Handicrafts, Champs de Mars-Paris Exposition of 1878," by S. Albert Reed, 1878



Box 9 Folder 8 "Mono-Metallism, Bi-Metallism, and International Coinage", 1879



Box 11 Folder 7 American Journal of Mathematics, 1879 March, June


Box 11 Folder 8 Mining reports, 1879, undated



Box 9 Folder 9 "Two Papers on Academic Degrees", 1880



Box 11 Folder 9 Curriculum, circa 1880s



Box 14 Folder 8 Memo for conference with Pres. Barnard as to Lecture, or Lectures, on Pedagogies, preliminary to a Chair, of School, circa 1880s



Mapcase 15-J-14 "The Churchman's Companion to the Calendar" by President Barnard, 1882


Mapcase 15-J-14 "The Perpetual Calendar," by President Barnard, 1882



Box 9 Folder 10 "The Higher Education of Women", 1882



Box 6 Folder 56 University expenses statement, 1883-1884, Photostatic copy.


Box 6 Folder 57 "Answers of Geologists to an Inquiry as to the Theory of Atlantis, as set forth by Ignatius Donnelly", 1883 February, Letterbook containing typescript copies of letters.



Box 11 Folder 10 Formulas for the computation of Easter, 1883



Box 6 Folder 58 Passage Omitted, on the recommendation of the examining committee, from the Annual Report of the President of Columbia College, 1884, Printed pamphlet.


Box 6 Folder 59 Last will and testament of Frederick A. P. Barnard, 1886 January 21



Box 11 Folder 11 List of President Barnard's publications, 1886



Box 9 Folder 11 "Warfare Against Society", 1887



Box 6 Folder 63 Resolutions of the Alumni and Trustees of Columbia College on the retirement and death of Frederick A. P. Barnard, 1888-1889


Box 6 Folder 69 Clippings of obituaries for Frederick A. P. Barnard, 1889



Box 11 Folder 12 Columbia University Farewell Address, 1889



Box 6 Folder 60-61 New York County Surrogate's Court documents related to Frederick A. P. Barnard's estate, 1890 April 21, May 27, 2 folders


Box 6 Folder 70 Biographical articles about Frederick A. P. Barnard, 1895, 1940


Box 6 Folder 64 Columbia University Quarterly report of an address by Nicholas Murray Butler about Frederick A. P. Barnard, 1909 March


Box 6 Folder 68 Biographical clippings and ephemera related to Frederick A. P. Barnard, circa 1919-1940s



Box 9 Folder 12 University of Alabama Centennial Celebration bulletin, 1931



Box 6 Folder 72 New York Times Magazine clipping, 1936 March 1


Box 6 Folder 67 Clipping of a Herald Tribute article on Frederick A. P. Barnard's 1856 Thanksgiving Day oration, 1939 November 19


Box 6 Folder 73 Newspaper clippings about Frederick A. P. Barnard, circa 1940s


Box 6 Folder 74 University of Mississippi campus photographs, 1944 March

Taken by Frederick R. Williams, Columbia College Class of 1931.



Box 8 Volume 3 Autobiography, Reminiscences, and Letters, undated



Box 6 Folder 55 Calculations on Kepler's laws, by G. H., undated



Box 14 Folder 7 Computed Angles of Micros. Objective, undated, Photostatic copy.



Box 6 Folder 75 Etching plate of Frederick A. P. Barnard, undated


Box 6 Folder 71 Facsimile of a phonetic shorthand letter by Frederick A. P. Barnard, from The Phonographic Magazine, undated



Box 11 Folder 20 First Analysis of an International Code, undated


Box 11 Folder 16 Language. Its Origin and Present State, the Duty of Maintaining its Purity, and the Possibility of its Improvement, undated


Box 11 Folder 15 Lecture notes on The Eye and the Telescope, undated


Box 11 Folder 17 Lecture on microscopic organisms, undated


Box 11 Folder 13 Lectures and notes on Existence of God and Revelation, undated



Box 6 Folder 66 Photographs of portraits of Frederick A. P. Barnard, undated



Box 11 Folder 18 Speech to the Gentlemen of the Graduating Classes, undated



Box 6 Folder 44 The Calendar, undated

Newspaper clippings pasted down on scrapbook pages.



Box 11 Folder 14 The French Genders manuscript copy by Edward David Hearn, M. A., undated



Box 14 Folder 9 The French Verbs by Edward David Hearn, M. A., undated



Box 11 Folder 19 The Philosophical Solution of 'Magic Squares,' by Stephen Pearl Andrews, undated