John Fries Frazer papers, 1834-1871
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- Letter to J[ohn] F[ries] Frazer, Dec. 31-Jan.1, 1839-1840
- Concerning Indian artifacts. Friendly letter. Discusses bow, quiver, and arrows of natives of Queen Charlotte Sound (Haida or Tsimshian?). Mentions Klickatat Indians. Includes sketch of a facade of a house.
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- Louis Agassiz to John Fries Frazer, December 24, 1866.
- Cambridge, A.L.S. 1p. (see Frazer papers. Letters from Agassiz, no. 20.) Formerly B F865.a. Friendly letter. Film 1249.
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- Louis Agassiz to John Fries Frazer, July 17, 1862.
- Nahant, A.L.S. 2p. (see Frazer papers. Letters from Agassiz, no. 16.) Formerly B F865.a. Friendly letter. Wishes to give lectures in Philadelphia. Film 1249.
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- Professor Agassiz's lectures. Prof. Agassiz proposes to deliver a course of lectures in Philadelphia, similar to the one just completed by him before the Lowell Institute
- According to the broadside the series of lectures was to be similar to one just completed by Agassiz at the Lowell Institute whose object was "to explain the successive creation of the several divisions of the animal kingdom." Only one year after this lecture series Agassiz returned to America to become professor of zoology and geology at the Lawrence Scientific School at Harvard. Lists the following among the 35 members of the lecture committee: J[ohn] K. Kane, R[obert] M. Patterson, Robert Hare, S[amuel] G. Morton, C[harles] D. Meigs, T[homas] D. Mutter, and J[ohn F.] Frazer., Item call number: B F865.a, no. 17.
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- W.W. Cooper to Benjamin Peirce, April 18, 1867.
- Cambridge, A.L.S. 4p. (see Frazer papers. Correspondence...; 1834-1870.) Concerning the A.D.Bache papers at the university of Pennsylvania.
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- Winfield Scott to Simon Cameron, June 7, 1861.
- Washington, L. 2p. Copy. End.: "Commd.Privately to Prof.Frazer..." (see Frazer papers. Correspondence...; 1834-1870.) War news.
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- Wolocott Gibbs to John Fries Frazer, April 7, 1869.
- Cambridge, A.L.S. 3p. (see Frazer papers. Correspondence...; 1834-1870.) Concerning A.D.Bache.