Box 135

Retrospective narrative of early life and work; concerns New Jersey and Rutgers career [class of 1857]; latter pages recount early career in Japan, ending circa 1866. Penciled note by Griffis on p. 1 reads "Read by W.E. Griffis / NY RR & Poughkeepsie / November 28, 1920."

Signatures and pages are detached from binding.

5" x 8"

Volume is entitled "Scrap Book" (green volume w/ title on spine): includes introductory note by Silas Bent on endpapers; address on "Thermometric Gateways to the Pole," with numerous reviews, essays, correspondence about Bent's theory of a warmer Arctic Ocean.

Second volume, also entitled "Scrap Book" (on front cover) includes newspaper clippings, maps and correspondence about polar exploration.

An additional folder contains materials found inserted into Vol. 2: including meteorological charts; clippings; an offprint of an 1855 lecture by Bent on the Kuro Shiwo (the Black Current); numerous items of correspondence.

[The Silas Bent logbook to the 1853-1854 Perry Expedition, acquired by Griffis, is with the log books of the U.S. Naval Expedition to Japan in Box 138a.]

Recounts trip to Niigata, 1869.

Brown was accompanied by Mrs. Brown and Miss Mary Kidder [later Mrs. E. Rothesay Miller].

Includes accounts of supplies and provisions and notes to topography as well as a narrative of the journey.

3" x 5"

Typescript MS, annotated by Griffis.

Covers Brown's years in Japan and includes a bibliography of his translations and writings. [Transcribed by Edward E. Salisbury.]