Correspondence with, and relating to, Wilbur, Orville and Katharine Wright

This material is held atNational Aerospace Library

Reference
- GB 398 raesl/1
Dates of Creation
- 1904 - 1943
Name of Creator
- Wright Katharine
  Wright Orville 1871-1948 father of powered flight
  Wright Wilbur 1867-1912 father of powered flight
Physical Description
- 8 files

Scope and Content

Letters and cables from Orville Wright, Wilbur Wright and Katherine Wright, primarily to Griffith Brewer, Alec Ogilvie and the Royal Aeronautical Society.

Personal Names

Wright Katharine

Wright Orville 1871-1948 father of powered flight

Wright Wilbur 1867-1912 father of powered flight

Titles

Letters of the Wright Brothers : letters of Wilbur, Orville and Katharine Wright in the library of the Royal Aeronautical Society 2003

Archive Record|Table of contents

Royal Aeronautical Society Historic Letters Collectionraesl

Correspondence with, and relating to, Wilbur, Orville and Katharine Wrightraesl/1

Correspondence with W. H. Dines, E. S. Bruce, E. P. Frost, J. D. Fullerton and othersraesl/2

Correspondence with and relating to Octave Chanute & Samuel Langleyraesl/3

Correspondence with and relating to Lawrence Hargrave, William A Eddy, Herbert F. Lloyd, Thomas Moy and Henry Coxwellraesl/4

Correspondence with J. W. Dunne, A. V. Roe, A. D. Carden, F. A. Barton, Jose Weiss, G. H. Bryan, Lord Rayleigh, John Bacon and othersraesl/5

Correspondence files of the Secretary of the Aeronautical Society of Great Britain and others.raesl/6

Correspondence with and relating to Patrick Alexander, Sir Frederick Handley Page, G. L. Davidson and S. H. Hollandsraesl/7

Correspondence with and relating to Thomas H. Blakesley, R. F. Moore, John Moore-Brabazon, Lord Brabazon of Tara, Dr L. Prandl, V. E. Johnson, W. R. Turnbull, T. O'Brian Hubbard, Reginald M. Balston and others.raesl/8

Correspondence with and relating to Samuel. F. Cody, Alec Ogilvie, Georges Berthenson, H. C. Vogt, G. P. Deverall Saul, John Bernard Seely and others.raesl/9

Correspondence with and relating to Santos Dumont, Gustav Lilienthal, J. Simmons, William H. Le Fevre, George F. Fitzgerald, Harold Sadler, H. S. Helle-Shaw, William J. S. Lockyer, E. M. Maitland, Percival Spencer, Ernest Shackleton and Captain R. F. Scottraesl/10

Correspondence with and relating to F. W. Lanchesterraesl/11

Correspondence with and relating to Samuel F. Cody, A. F. Zahn, A. L. Rotch, James Glaisher, Sir Hiram Maxim, Horatio Phillips and others.raesl/12

Correspondence with and relating to Lord Kelvin, C. G. Grey, William Cochrane, J. K. Smythies, C. C. Turner, May Harbord, R. P. Hearne, Lord Montagu of Beaulieu, Claude Grahame-White, A. D. Maclean, T. W. K. Clarke, Lady Mary Bailey, T. I. Blanchard, T. W. Pilcher, H. W. L. Moeddebeck, Charles S. Rolls, E. V. Hammond, Alan H Burgoyne, Commission Permanente Internationale d'Aeronautique, V. Straus Frank and othersraesl/13

Correspondence with and relating to J. C. Hunsaker, W. O. Manning, Mervyn O'Gorman, B. G. Cooper, A. P. Thurston, F. Vivian Thompson, C. R. Fairey, E. Caesar Hawkins on the Association for Promoting Flight, R. M. Clarkson on the elimination of the name de Havilland from British aviation, and from others.raesl/14

Correspondence relating to the Aeronautical Society of Great Britain's Wings Committee and Inventors' Proposals Committeeraesl/15

Letters and other material relating to aeronauitical activities of Ernest Pitmanraesl/16

Correspondence with C. Alma Baker, Captain F. L. M. Boothby, A. M. Bourke, Sir Charles Bright, The Royal Meteorological Society and Sir Walter Raleigh, together with material relating to bird flight.raesl/17

Correspondence with Robert Kronfeld, A. E. Turner, Sir R. M. Ruck, W. R. D. Shaw, E. F. Spanner, George Holt Thomas, Sir Henry Tizard and Lord Trenchard.raesl/18

Correspondence with Ross Smith, Fred T. Jane, E. Meos, Charles Gibbs-Smith, Sire Geoffrey de Havilland, D. Haylock, Thomas J. Sowter, Henry Bessemer, W. Windham, Philip Brannon and others, together with letters between Charles Gibbs-Smith and A. V. Roeraesl/19

Correspondence from Charles A. Lindbergh, I. I. Sikorsky, and Prof D. Riabouchinsky, together with material relating to the career of Captain Eardley H. Lawfor.raesl/20

Correspondence from Captain J. Laurence Pritchard, Lord Ventry, Sir Frank Whittle and others.raesl/21

Correspondence relating to two members of the Royal Aeronautical Society interned during World War II: Dr G. V. Lachmann and A. R. Weylraesl/22

Correspondence relating to Lady Heath, Sir Sefton Brancker, Bert Hinkler, J. S. Fairfax, Sir Alan Cobham and Dr Theodore von Karmanraesl/23

Correspondence relating to Florence Barwood, Dr A. M. Ballantyne, Joan Bradbrooke and J. E. Hodgsonraesl/24