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The Papers of Herma Briffault in the Dartmouth College Library

WMST Mss-109

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Descriptive Summary

Creator: Briffault, Herma
Title Remainder: Papers. undated
Dates: undated
Identification: Mss-109



BRIFFAULT, HERMA

.25 lin. ft.

North to the Indies

Story of the `Collins Overland Line', a plan and expedition to build a telegraph cable from the West Coast of the U.S., [UNK] through Alaska, and across the Bering Strait and Russia. Also known as the Overland Telegraph Expedition, 1864-1867.

Unpublished manuscript, 414 l.

FOLDER : 1.
Correspondence with Stefansson

FOLDER : 2-6.
Manuscript, with holograph revisions. Includes some comments by V. Stefansson

FOLDER : 7.
Manuscript - discarded pages, revisions

FOLDER : 8.
Miscellaneous notes

Memo on two books by Howard N. Eavenson

Precis of Buache, Phillippe - Considerations geographiques et physiques sur les nouvelles decouvertes au nord