Diaries and journals.

Overview The collection consists of printed volumes relating to Colonel William Edwards, William W. Edwards, and William Henry Edwards; also copies of manuscript materials, including a diary of William Henry Edwards for 1846, and his "Journal and Preface to London Diary," 1848. Other materials relate to the family's coal interests in Kanawha County and include account books for the Coalsburg-Kanawha Mining Company, 1926-1928; the Deep Hollow Coal Company, 1920-1940; and the Kanawha and Ohio Coal...

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Entomological notebooks of the famous naturalist and authority on North American butterflies, William Henry Edwards of Coalsburg, West Virginia.

Scope and Contents 444 letters. Subjects include: coal lands in W. Va., Lepidoptera collection, scientific publications, and research on butterflies. Correspondents: L. Agassiz, D.T. Ansted, John Akhurst, V.V. Baird, Wm. H. Ashmead, Addison Ballard, N.W. Bates, Jacob Boll, George H. Briggs, Albert S. Brekimore, A.J. Butler, John H. Cook, E.R. Crotch, George Dimmock, Rudolph Feider, J. Fletcher, P.H. Gosse, Edward H. Griffin, Ferdinando Grist, Albert Hopkins, W.F. Kirby, Ludwig Kumbein, Theodore L....