Henry S. Pritchett papers
Language: eng
Number of pages: 3700
Subjects: United States. Bureau of Standards; Massachusetts Institute of Technology; U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey; Medicine; Earthquakes; Correspondence; Religious literature; Study and teaching; Massachusetts; Astronomy; Societies; Politics and government; Franklin Fund; Science; Massachusetts. Charles River Basin Commission; Race relations; Santa Barbara Relief Fund Committee; United States; Endowments; Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching; Rivers; Education; Disaster relief
Description: Correspondence, speeches, writings, reports, travel diaries, autobiographical material, Pritchett's book entitled What is Religion? (1906), and other papers relating to Pritchett's career in science and education.  Documents his activities with the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, Massachusetts Charles River Basin Commission, Santa Barbara Relief Fund Committee, formation of the U.S. Bureau of Standards, and the Franklin Fund.  Subjects include education, medical education, racial matters, political affairs, and Woodrow Wilson.  Correspondents include Charles Francis Adams, Samuel Bowles, Nicholas Murray Butler, Andrew Carnegie, Charles Gates Dawes, Charles William Eliot, Samuel S. Hall, Herbert Hoover, Walter A. Jessup, Frederick P. Keppel, William S. Learned, Gladys Noon, Margaret Rabitte, Alfred Zantzinger Reed, Theodore Roosevelt, Elihu Root, Elihu Root, Jr., W.B. Storey, William H. Taft, Booker T. Washington, Woodrow Wilson, and Owen Wister.
Notes: Open to research.

Gift, Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, 1964.

Gift, Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Waller Pritchett, 1966-1975.

Astronomer, superintendent of the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey, and president of Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Collection material in English.

Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room.