Manuscripts
Subject
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Found in 73 Collections and/or Records:
William E. Gordon Papers
Collection
Identifier: MS 0408
Abstract:
Academic and professional papers of William E. Gordon, member of the faculty of Rice University 1966-1985, now Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Space Physics and Astronomy and of Electrical and Computer Engineering, with material related to his work in developing and administering the Arecibo Ionospheric Observatory in Puerto Rico.
Dates:
1947-1994
William H. Nelson "The American Tory" typescript
Collection
Identifier: MS 0350
Abstract:
This collection consists of a bound typescript of the book "The American Tory", which is the study of the Loyalists (or “Tories”) of the American Revolution.
Dates:
1960
"William Hayne Leavell: an autobiography, 1850-1930", typescript 1979
Collection
Identifier: MS 0384
Abstract
This is a typed copy of an autobiography of William Hayne Leavell (1850-1930). Leavell served as minister of the First Presbyterian Church in Houston from 1893 to 1905. After serving as an envoy to Guatemala (1913-1919), he returned to Houston. The autobiography, written in 1920 by Leavell, transcribed later by his daughter and edited into this typescript in 1979 by Alec Bayless and Larry Noble, describes Leavell's career at the First Presbyterian Church in Houston, his service in Guatemala,...
Dates:
1979