Folder 5
Container
Contains 1 Result:
Parsons, Thomas William, 1819-1892. A.L.S. to [Mrs. Anna M. Parsons]; La Scalina, 8 February 1866
File — Folder: 5
Call Number: MS C.1.8
Scope and Contents
Reports a conversation with Dr. Jeffries Wyman about the possibility of Dante's having seen the Southern Cross, as suggested by [Friedrich Heinrich Alexander von] Humboldt in Cosmos; wishes his wife to present the question to Professor [Benjamin] Peirce.
4p.
Signed "W".
Printed in part in More Books for Oct. 1938, pp. 364-365.
Dates:
8 February 1866
