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<p>[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], William Henry Edwards (1822-1909) Papers, A&amp;M 1951, West Virginia and Regional History Center, West Virginia University Libraries, Morgantown, West Virginia.</p>  </prefercite>
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<p>1373, 1614, 1951</p>  </relatedmaterial>
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<p>444 letters. Subjects include: coal lands in W. Va., Lepidoptera collection, scientific publications, and research on butterflies. </p><p> 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. Mead, R. Meldola, Charles Sedgwick Minot, Samuel F.B. Morse, Tho. G. Morris, T.A. Osborne, Baron von Osten-Sachen, Edward Palmer, S.H. Peabody, T.R. Peale, Chris H. Roberts, Francis G. Linbon, R.R. Rawley, Wm. Stimpson and P.R. Uhler. </p>  </scopecontent>
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    <subject source="ingest">Coal mining.</subject>
    <subject source="ingest">Diaries and journals.</subject>
    <subject authfilenumber="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85044125" source="lcsh">Entomology</subject>
    <subject authfilenumber="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85018381" source="lcsh">Butterflies</subject>
    <persname source="ingest">Edwards, William Henry.</persname>
    <persname authfilenumber="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n50070284" source="Library of Congress Name Authority File">Morse, Samuel Finley Breese, 1791-1872</persname>
    <persname authfilenumber="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n87106872" source="Library of Congress Name Authority File">Peabody, Selim H. (Selim Hobart), 1829-1903</persname>
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