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Winslow Upton papers (MS-1UF-U1)

Brown University Archives

Box A
Brown University
Providence, RI 02912
Tel: 401-863-2146
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Inventory

Series I. Diaries and notebooks, 1877-1910

Container Description Date
Box 1 Diaries
1881-1905
Box 2-3 Notebooks and scrapbooks
Contents Note: Notebooks on astronomical observations including lunar eclipses, sunspots, Haley's Comet (1909-1910), and a scrapbook on balloon flights.
1877-1910

Series II. Lecture notes

Container Description Date
Box 4 Lecture notes

Series III. Correspondence, circa 1875-1914

Container Description Date
Box 5 Professional correspondence
circa 1875-1914
Box 6 Family correspondence
Contents Note: Chiefly correspondence from Winslow Upton addressed to his wife, Cornelia August Upton. Additional correspondents include Mary Babcock, Eleanor Upton, and Grace Upton, among others.
circa 1876-1913

Series IV. Personal papers, circa 1877-1969

Container Description Date
Box 6 Photographs
Box 6 An earthbound astronomer: Winslow Upton, a memoir by his daughters Eleanor S. Upton and Margaret F. Upton
1969
Box 7 Assorted notes, correspondence, and tributes to Upton
Contents Note: Includes Upton's notebook of Lectures upon the differential and integral calculus, given at Harvard College during the years 1877, 1878, 1879 by Prof. Wm. E. Byerly.
1877-1879