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1918; telegram. Abbot to Goddard, 5 June 1918; Papers, 1:
233-34.
25. Telegram George E. Hale to Abbot, 10 July 1918; Goddard
to Walcott, 15 July 1918; Papers, 1:246-48.
26. Goddard to Edmund C. Sanford, 15 July 1918; telegram,
Abbot to Hale, 17 July 1917; Squier to Chief of
Ordnance, 19 July 1918; Abbot to Goddard, 22 July 1918;
telegram, Goddard to Abbot, 1 August 1918; Papers, 1:248-49.
27. Goddard to Walcott, 8 August 1918, Papers, 1:253.
28. Memorandum, Abbot to Walcott, 14 October 1918;
Chairman, U.S. Employees' Compensation Commission, to
C. N. Hickman, 10 October 1918; SI Archives.
29. Telegram, Abbot to Goddard, 23 September 1918,
Papers, 1:288-89.
30. Program for Tests at Aberdeen Proving Ground, Papers,
1:296-99.
31. Goddard to Walcott, 15 November 1918, Papers, 1:300-
301.
32. Lieutenant Colonel Herbert O'Leary, Army Ordnance
Department, to Secretary, Smithsonian Institution, 19 November
1918; Abbot to Goddard 26 March 1919; Papers,
1:302-3, 315-16.
33. Goddard to Abbot, 7 April, 1919, Papers, 1:320.
34. "Invents Rocket with Altitude Range 70 Miles; Terrible
Engine of War Developed in Worcester by Dr. Robert
H. Goddard, Professor of Physics at Clark in Laboratory of
Worcester Tech, under Patronage of U.S. War Department,"
Worcester Evening Gazette (Massachusetts), 28 March 1919,
Papers, 1:316.
35. Abbot to Goddard, 10 April 1919; Goddard to Abbot,
15 April 1919; Abbot to Goddard, 18 April 1919; Papers
1:322-23.
36. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections, vol. 71, no. 2,
69 pp., 10 pis.; reprinted in Papers, 1:337-406.
37. "New Rocket Devised by Prof. Goddard May Hit Face
of the Moon; Clark College Professor Has Perfected Invention
for Exploring Space—Smithsonian Society Backs It,"
Boston Herald, 12 January 1920, reprinted in Papers, 1:406.
38. Papers, 1:393-95.
39. Goddard to Walcott, 19 January 1920, Papers, 1:410.
40. Goddard's Diary (hereafter cited as Diary), 11 July-
13 September 1921, Papers, 1:474.
41. Diary, 16-17 March 1926, Papers, 2:580-82.
42. Goddard to Abbot, 5 May 1926, Papers, 2:587-90.
43. Papers, 2:588.
44. Diary, 1-11 April 1926; Papers, 2:584-85.
45. Diary, 13 ApriI-5 May 1926; Papers, 2:586-87.
46. Diary, Papers, 2:585.
47. Goddard to Abbot, 29 June 1926, Papers, 2:597-98.
48. Diary, 20 July 1927, Papers, 1:620.
49. Diary, 31 August 1927, Papers, 2:621.
50. Diary, 24-26 December 1928, Papers, 2:651-53; Goddard
to Abbot, 3 January 1929, Papers 2:654-55.
51. Diary, 3-17 July 1929, Papers, 2:667-68; Description of
Flight of 17 July 1929, Goddard's Notebook on Experiments,
Papers, 2:668-73.
52. Goddard to Abbot, 18 July 1929, Papers, 2:674-76;
Abbot to Goddard, 20 July 1929, Papers, 2:678. Memorandum
to Associated Press by Smithsonian Institution, 20 July 1929,
Papers, 2:679-81.
53. "Goddard Experimental Rocket Explodes in Air; Clark
Professor Making Tests on Auburn Farm," Worcester Evening
Gazette, 17 July 1929, reprinted in Papers, 2:673; "Moon
Rocket-Man's Test Alarms Whole Countryside—Blast as
Metal Projectile Is Fired Through Auburn Tower Echoes
For Miles Around, Starts Hunt for Fallen Plane, and Finally
Reveals Goddard Experiment Station," Boston Globe, 18 July
1929, reprinted (along with other newspaper clippings) in
Papers, 2:674.
54. Robert E. Molt, State Fire Inspector, to George C.
Neal, State Fire Marshal, Boston, 25 July 1929, Papers, 2:682.
55. Goddard to Abbot, 26 July 1929, Papers, 2:682-84. A
summary of Dr. Goddard's experimental notes for the test
at Camp Devens is presented in Goddard, Rocket Development:
Liquid Fuel Rocket Research 1929-1941 (hereafter
cited as Rocket Development), Esther C. Goddard and G.
Edward Pendray, editors (Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey:
Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1961), pp. 1-14.
56. The efforts which lead to the issuance of a license by
the War Department for use of the Camp Devens Reservation
for rocket experimentation are detailed in Papers, 2:
685-710.
57. C. Fayette Taylor, Department of Aeronautical Engineering,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, to Goddard,
22 November 1929, Papers, 2:713; and Diary, 23-27 November
1929, Papers, 2:713.
58. The events of the eight months between Charles A.
Lindbergh's initial meeting with Dr. Goddard and the subsequent
financial support by Daniel Guggenheim are described
in Papers, 2:713-44.
59. Guggenheim to Wallace W. Atwood, 12 June 1930, and
Atwood to Guggenheim, 13 June 1930, Papers, 2:744-45.
60. John C. Merriam to Goddard, 19 December 1929, and
Goddard to Merriam, 26 December 1929, Papers, 2:726-28.
61. Atwood and Goddard to Abbot and other members of
the Advisory Committee, 14 June 1930, Papers, 2:746; and
statement released by Clark University "for publication in
newspapers of Thursday, July 10, 1930," 9 July 1930, Papers,
2:752-54.
62. A summary of Goddard's experimental notes for the
tests conducted in New Mexico is presented in Rocket Development,
pp. 15^46 and 57-215.
63. Goddard to Abbot, 28 May 1930, Papers, 2:742.
64. Goddard to John A. Fleming, 22 January 1931, and
statement regarding the desirability of a reissue of U.S.
Patents 1,102,653 and 1,103,503 from the standpoint of national
defense, 22 January 1931, Papers, 2:782-84.
65. H.R. 16451, House of Representatives, 21 January 1931,
and H.R. 7174, House of Representatives, 8 January 1926,
SI Archives.
66. W. H. Tschappat to Abbot, 6 February 1931, SI Archives.
67. Abbot to Goddard, to W. W. Gilbert, to J. T. Robinson,
to R. Luce, and to Goddard, all 1 February 1931, SI
Archives.
68. Telegram from Goddard to Atwood, 2 June 1932; Atwood
to the members of the Advisory Committee on the
Goddard Rocket Project, 14 June 1932; and Colonel Henry
Breckinridge to Goddard, 16 June 1932; Papers, 2:830-32.
69. Diary, 28 June-2l July 1932, Papers, 2:833-34.