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Description of Series and Container List
SERIES: PERSONAL PAPERS, 1908, 1916-2000, n.d.
This series is organized in fourteen subseries: Correspondence; Biographical Material;
Educational Records; Financial and Legal Records; Writings; Planetary Observation; Telescopes
and Optics; Pluto Discovery Anniversaries; Awards and Honors; Organizations; Tombaugh
Family; Unitarian Universalist Church of Las Cruces; Subject Files; and Miscellaneous.
Subseries: Correspondence, 1923-1997, 2000, n.d.
The correspondence is organized in four sub-subseries: Family Correspondence; General
Correspondence; Fan Mail; and Crank Mail. Family and general correspondence are arranged
alphabetically by correspondent name. Fan mail is arranged in two headings, general and cards,
with the correspondence arranged chronologically within each heading. Similarly, crank mail
has two headings, general and UFO related; within each heading, the correspondence is arranged
chronologically.
Sub-subseries: Family Correspondence, 1927-1996, 2000, n.d.
Box:Folder Contents
Letters sent:
1:1-2 Christmas letters, 1957, 1964-1968, 1973, 1981-1985, 1989, 1991-1992, 2000
1:3-11 General (letters home), 1929-1930
1:12-14 Round Robin letters, 1939-1940, 1946-1950, 1955-1970, 1974-1977, 1980
1:15 Achterberg, Anita Rachel (Tombaugh), 1950, 1973, 1978, 1980, 1982, 1996, n.d.
1:16 Chritton, George and Etta, 1930
1:17 Chritton, Laura, 1929-1930
2:1 Edson, Alden, 1942, 1947, 1964, 1968
2:2 Edson, Irene B., 1937-1938, 1942, 1956
2:3 Edson, James B. and Lil, 1938, 1942, 1946, 1953, 1961, n.d.
2:4 Gilmore, Jay and Ruth, 1929, 1954, 1964, 1980, 1982, n.d.
2:5 Hayward, Hugh and Mildred, 1955-1956, 1983, 1986, 1991
2:6 Kuhn, Madison and Ruth, 1955-1956, 1979, 1982, 1984-1985
2:7 Long, Donna, 1969
2:8 Spreen, Esther (Tombaugh), 1927, 1929-1930, 1937, 1954-1957, 1961, 1971,
1978-1983, 1988-1990, n.d.
2:9 Tombaugh, Alden, 1955-1956, 1960, 1964, 1971, 1993, n.d.
2:10 Tombaugh, Annette, 1947, 1955-1956, 1964, 1967, 1970-1971, n.d.
2:11 Tombaugh, Charles and Naomi, 1940-1941, 1947, 1956, 1967-1969, 1972, 1980,
n.d.
2:12 Tombaugh, Leon M., 1927, 1930, 1937, 1949-1953
NMSU Library/Archives & Special Collections C. W. Tombaugh Papers / Ms0407
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