Edward Maynard papers
Language: eng
Number of pages: 110
Subjects: Correspondence; Ordnance; Rifles; Firearms; Dentistry; Massachusetts Arms Company; Patents
Description: Correspondence and legal papers relating to Maynard's invention of a percussion primer (known as the Maynard tape primer), his patent of it in 1845, and his efforts, plus those of his partners, Thomas L. Smith and J. Washington Tyson, to get firearms manufactured utilizing the primer. Some correspondence relates to his improvements in the breech-loading rifle and the sale of his patent rights.  Correspondents include Timothy W. Carter (agent of the Massachusetts Arms Company), George Mackay, Edward Riddle, Thomas L. Smith, and Joseph Washington Tyson.  Also included are account books documenting Maynard's Washington, D.C., dental practice.  Patients mentioned include Samuel Cooper, W. W. Corcoran, John A. B. Dahlgren, Stephen Arnold Douglas, Thomas Ewing, Philip Kearny, Horace Mann, George B. McClellan, George Washington Riggs, Edwin McMasters Stanton, and Joseph Vann.
Notes: Open to research.

Microfilm edition available in part, no. 18,774.

Microfilm produced from originals in the Manuscript Division. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress Photoduplication Service, 1984.

Gift, Edward Stuart, 1934.

Purchase, 1992.

Dental surgeon and inventor.

Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Division and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms009216