| |
Contributions of Philadelphia to
Lewis and Clark History
by Paul Russell Cutright
Part II-- Postlude (1804 - 1814)
- Lewis returns
to Philadelphia in 1807 to find a publisher
- Lewis meets with Dr. Benjamin Smith Barton
- Lewis meets Bernard McMahon and Frederick Pursch,
botanist
- Lewis and Charles Willson Peale
- Lewis and Alexander Wilson, ornithologist
- Lewis and Charles B.J.F. de St. Memin and John James
Barralet
- Lewis seeks help in correcting his errors in latitude
and longitude
- Lewis's air rifle
- Lewis attends meetings of the American Philosophical
Society
- Lewis's activities in Philadelphia-- recorded and
conjectured
- Lewis finds a publisher and organizes plans for the
publication
- The 1814 edition-- what would Lewis have thought of
it?
- Far-reaching and consequential results of Lewis's
time in Philadelphia
- Lewis and his friend Mahlon Dickerson
- William Clark arrives in Philadelphia in 1810
- Nicholas Biddle undertakes the editing of the journals
- Biddle meets with Clark in Virginia
- Biddle writes a prospectus describing the format of
the publication
- Obstacles to publication
- Paul Allen takes over publication
- The journals are published at last
- Responses to the publication of the Journals
- Jefferson's efforts to complete the publication
- Clark asks Biddle to dispose of the papers as Jefferson
directed; Biddle delays
- Nicholas Biddle, man of many accomplishments
|