Charles Scott Venable to Leander J. McCormick, 1880 April 8

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Sends some letters to help McCormick while he is looking into observatory matters, possibly letters of introduction to German astronomers for McCormick's voyage to Germany, where the directors of three observatories were either fellow students of Venable's or studied at Bonn and Berlin at the same time as himself; he also mentions his friend Major Scheibert of the Prussian Engineers [at Stuttgart?] who as his tent-mate was sent to observe the Confederate mode of fighting during the Civil War and was an admirer of General Robert E. Lee.

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