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Title:
James Mease Papers, 1794-1848

Collection number:
185

Creator:
Mease, James 1771-1846

Extent:
0.8 linear feet
( 2 document boxes)

Repository:
University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library History and Special Collections Division

Los Angeles, California 90095-1490

Abstract:
James Mease (1771-1846), physician, scientific thinker and author, was one of Philadelphia's most prominent citizens and an ardent booster of both the United States and Pennsylvania. His interests were wide-ranging, as were his contacts with notable figures in science, agriculture and natural history in the United States and abroad. The papers consist of two folio volumes, over fifty letters mostly addressed to Dr. Mease, and some newspapers and other miscellaneous materials. One of the folios volumes is a letterbook, containing mostly précis, but sometimes entire copies, of outgoing correspondence over the years 1802-1836. The other volume is a register of Mease's agricultural notes, experiments, theories, plus notes on conversations and correspondence.

Physical location:
History and Special Collections Division, Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library, University of California, Los Angeles
Collection materials in English

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