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Descriptive Summary

Repository: Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University
Location: b
Call No.: MS Ger 232
Location: [Shelved with bMS Ger 233]
Creator: Gauss, Carl Friedrich, 1777-1855.
Title: Family papers,
Date(s): 1845-1925.
Quantity: 1 folder (.2 linear ft.)
Abstract: Primarily correspondence among family members of the German mathematician, astronomer, and physicist Carl Friedrich Gauss.

Acquisition Information:

Historical Note

Gauss was a German mathematician, astronomer, and physicist.

Scope and Content

Contains correspondence in manuscript and photostatic reproduction written in German and other letters translated into English among Carl Friedrich Gauss and his children, including his daughter Theresa, living in Göttingen, and his sons Eugene and Charles, who had moved to America in 1831. Letters chiefly concern family matters, as well as descriptions of a day-long festival celebrating Gauss's 50 years at the university (July 1849) and of his death in 1855. Also includes a genealogy of the Gauss family compiled by William Gauss in 1901, and newspaper and journal clippings about C. F. Gauss.

Container List

• (1) Gauss, Carl Friedrich, 1777-1855. A.L.s. photostat (C.F. Gauss) to Eugene Gauss; Göttingen, 15 Feb 1848. [4 pieces]
  Photostatic copy of letter and envelope.

• (2) Gauss, Carl Friedrich, 1777-1855. A.L.s. (C.F. Gauss) to Charles William Gauss; Göttingen, 7 Aug 1852. folder ([3]p.) address on p.[4]
  [Miss Mary L. Gauss]

• (3) Gauss, Theresa, 1816-1864. A.L.s. (Theresa) to Eugene Gauss; Göttingen, 27 Mar 1845. folder ([3]p.) address on p.[4]
  In German. With a Ms. English translation of another letter from Theresa Gauss to Eugene Gauss, 1850 Dec. 6.
  [Robert Gauss and his brother's children]

• (4) Gauss, Theresa, 1816-1864. A.L.s. (Theresa) to [Charles William Gauss]; Göttingen, 16 May 1855. [4]p.
  About the death of Carl Friedrich Gauss.
  [Miss Mary L. Gauss]. Includes photographic copy of this letter.

• (5) Gauss, William Theodore, 1851-. An accurate record of every descendant of Carl Friedrich Gauss ... A.Ms.s. (William Theodore Gauss); [Colorado Springs? 1901] 26l.

• (6) Schering, Ernst, 1833-1897. A.L.s. (Ernst Schering) to [Eugene] Gauss; Sternwarte Göttingen, 21 Nov 1892. folder ([4]p.)
  In German.
  [Robert Gauss and his brother's children]

• (7) Gauss family. [Collection of clippings relating to members of the Gauss family; v.p., v.d.] 14 pieces.

• (8) [Letters concerning the Gauss family papers]. 1901-1925. 1 folder.
  In German and English.