Johann Carl Philipp von Krafft papers
Language: ger
Number of pages: 90
Subjects: Literature; Description and travel; Geometry; Philosophy; Perpetual calendars; German Participation; Mathematics; Astronomy; Language and languages; History
Description: Correspondence, journal (1770-1791), military records, travel notes, and writings chiefly relating to von Krafft's career as a mercenary soldier.  Includes material on his service for the British during the American Revolution.  The papers also reflect his travels in Russia, the Netherlands, and Québec, his interest in astronomy, geometry, literature, mathematics, and philosophy, his fluency in several languages, and his work on a perpetual calendar.
Notes: Open to research.

Gift, Carroll B. Cox, Elizabeth Jane Cox Reed, and the Cox family, 1994.

transferred to Library of Congress Geography and Map Division.

Hessian army officer and surveyor.

Collection material chiefly in German, with English, French, Latin, Russian, and Dutch.

Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms008082