Skip to main content Smithsonian Institution

The Chanute-Mouillard correspondence, April 16, 1890 to May 20, 1897, on the subject of flight / translated into English by Eugene Moritz and M. Louise Kraus ; edited by Juliette Bevo-Higgins

Online Media

Catalog Data

Author:
Chanute, Octave 1832-1910  Search this
Mouillard, Louis-Pierre 1834-1897  Search this
Corelli, G. fl. 1897  Search this
Bevo-Higgins, Juliette  Search this
Young, Pearl I  Search this
Sterne, Edward L  Search this
Subject:
Chanute, Octave 1832-1910  Search this
Mouillard, Louis-Pierre 1834-1897  Search this
Physical description:
[2], 277 [i.e. 281] leaves : ill. ; 29 cm
Type:
Electronic resources
Correspondence
Date:
1962
Notes:
"The work undertaken at the request of Pearl I. Young... who has authorized E.L. Sterne... to sell the only 12 copies available."
Mechanically reproduced typescript, with leaves printed on the recto side only.
Includes some correspondence between G. Corelli and O. Chanute after Mouillard's death, discussing the settling of Mouillard's estate.
The adjusted leaf count includes leaves numbered 62a, 62b, 111a, and 233[a].
Includes index.
Also available online.
NASMRB copy 39088013423330 has ms. pencil note at top of original cover: "We [possibly the Institute of the Aeronautical Sciences?] have original correspondence in file folder on shelf below, Chanute only." Accession no.: 63469.
NASMRB copy has a revised version of leaf 58, supplying text for a Dec. 10, 1891 letter formerly missing, bound in between leaves [275] and 276.
NASMRB copy has a few brief ms. pencil annotations in the margins.
NASMRB copy has a later blue buckram library binding with white lettered spine; the original printed green stiff-paper cover is bound in.
Elecresource
Topic:
Aeronautics--Flights  Search this
Aerodynamics  Search this
Call number:
TL540.C45 A2 E1962
TL540.C45 A213 1962
TL540.C45A2 E1962
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_145973