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Encoding Example for Letter from Emma P. Carr to Professor Victor Henri <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE TEI.2 SYSTEM "DTD/DALF.dtd"> <?xml-stylesheet href="letter.xsl" type="text/xsl"?> <TEI.2> <teiHeader> <fileDesc> <titleStmt> <title type="main">Letter from Emma P. Carr to Professor Victor Henri,<date> [July 5, 1924] </date> </title> <title type="version"> -- An Electronic Edition</title> <author> Written by: <name reg="Emma P. Carr" type="person" key="ECarr">Emma P. Carr</name>, <date>1880 - 1972</date> <xptr href="images/carr.jpg">(Emma Carr's photo)</xptr> </author> <respStmt> <resp>Creating of machine-readable text by <name reg="Moss, Shaoping">Shaoping Moss,</name> <date>Nov. 23, 2004</date> </resp> <resp> Encoded by <name reg="Moss, Shaoping" type="person">Shaoping Moss </name>and <name reg="Costello, Jean">Jean Costello,</name> <date>Nov. 30, 2004</date> </resp> </respStmt> </titleStmt> <publicationStmt> <publisher> <name type="organization">Chem 205: History of Chemistry,</name> </publisher> <date> Dec.8. 2004</date> </publicationStmt> </fileDesc> </teiHeader> <text> <body> <opener> <dateline>[ca July 5, 1924]</dateline> <address> <name type="place" key="528CS"> 528 Chestnut Street, <lb> Coshocton, Ohio</lb></name></address> <address2> <lb>Professor <name type="person" key="VHenri">Victor Henri</name>, </lb> <lb>University of Zurich,</lb> <lb>Zurich, Switzerland,</lb> </address2> <salute> My dear Professor Henri: --</salute> </opener> <p rend="indent1"> Since writing you last week, it occurs to me that in asking to work with you next year I should have written you more in detail of my academic training and experience. I took my degrees of B.S. and Ph.D. at the University of Chicago, --the latter in 1910, -- and my major work was in <sic corr="physical-organic" > physicao-organic </sic> chemistry. My work in organic was with Dr. Nef and my dissertation on the Aliphatio Imido-esters was done under the direction of Professor <name type="person" key="JStieglitz">Julius 1 Stieglitz.</name> My teaching experience has all been at <name type="org" key="MHC">Mount Holyoke College</name>, one of the larger of our colleges for women, where I have been lecturer in General and Physical Chemistry and director of the department since 1910.</p> <p rend="indent">Our college is distinctly an undergraduate college where the teaching duties take much of one's time so that I have not had sufficient connected time to accomplish a great deal in my research work. My particular interest has been in the application of physical methods to the study of organic problems and about ten years ago I began my work on absorption spectra. We purchased a Fery spectrograph, made by Hilger, and my investigations have been entirely on problems of constitution of organic compounds, -- the cyclopropane derivatives and, more recently, the tautomerism of hydantoin derivatives, and the halogen <sic corr="substituion" > substitution</sic> products of the aliphatic esters. As you know, there has been very little work on ultraviolet absorption spectra of organic compounds in any of the laboratories of this country so that the development of the work in our laboratory has necessitated extensive and detailed work on the literature of the subject. I realize so keenly the limitations of the method involved in our determinations by the Hartley method and I am hoping that we shall be able to equip the laboratory with instruments for the quantitative study of ultra-violet and infra-red spectra after my study abroad. The work that is being done in your laboratory is without question the most important contribution in the field that is being made anywhere and I very much hope that I may have the opportunity of working under your direction.</p> <p rend="indent"> In writing you with regard to my proposed plan of presenting the material in my assignment of the Tables, I trust that I made clear to you that the plan is a tentative one and if it does not seem feasible to you that you will not hesitate to criticize it. As I have worked with the literature, it has seemed to me that it might be possible to compile a systematic description of absorption curves in such a way that the characteristic points of each curve could be located with sufficient accuracy to reproduce the essential points of the curve from the description. The numerical data on absorption spectra which is given in the French Annual Tables is so varied in method of presentation that it is not possible to get values which are significant and comparable. If this data is to be included in the <name type="note" key="ICT" >International Critical Tables</name> in either numerical or graphical form it seems to me imperative that it should be systematically organized and I have found that greatest difficulty in working out what seems to me a satisfactory plan. </p> <p rend="indent">In the suggested plan which I sent you the description of Column 3 should be changed in order to avoid the use of the terms " beginning" and "end" of absorption band since this is likely to introduce confusion with the usual use of these terms in their application to the width of the band rather than the depth as I have used them. It would seem better to say, "Where two numbers are given the first is the value for the minimum thickness of the standard solution at which the absorption band is evident and the second for the maximum thickness at which it appears." Similarly there should be a change in phrasing to avoid the same terms in the general description which follows. If this general plan should be adopted a number of modifications and changes would no doubt have to be made. The important point to be decided is whether this plan or any similar plan can give the desired information in systematic form and can, at the same time, be coordinated with the other chapters. I will await your opinion on the matter with the greatest interest. </p> <p rend="indent"> May I assure you again of my sincere appreciation of all suggestions or criticisms which you may make? (Not sure if this is a question mark.) In undertaking the work with the I.C.T., I feel that my contribution must be along the lines of careful and accurate organization of existing data for my own experience in the repetition of the work of others is not sufficiently extensive to establish standards for the critical evaluation of conflicting data. There is, as you say, no field of physical chemistry in which the confusion in the literature is greater and undoubtedly the future development will be along the quantitative lines which you have worked out and systematized so admirably. </p> 2 <closer>Very sincerely yours, <signed>Emma P. Carr.</signed> </closer> </body> <back> <list> <item> <persName key="ECarr"> <foreName> Emma </foreName> <surname>Carr</surname> <anno>Emma Perry Carr was born on July 23, 1880 in Holmesville, Ohio, to Edmund and Anna Carr. She attended Ohio State University from 1898 until 1899, and then came to Mount Holyoke College. She attended Mount Holyoke from 1900 until 1902, and later received a B.S. and a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1905 and 1910, respectively. She then began teaching chemistry at Mount Holyoke. She became Chair of the Chemistry Department in 1913. In 1937, Carr became the first woman to be awarded the Francis P. Garvan Gold Medal honoring women chemists. She retired in 1946 after publishing numerous articles in chemistry journals. In 1955, the Chemistry Building at Mount Holyoke College was dedicated to Emma P. Carr. She died on January 7, 1972 in Evanston, Illinois.</anno> </persName> </item> <item> <persName key="JStieglitz"> <foreName> Julius </foreName> <surname>Stieglitz</surname> <anno>born May 26, 1867, Hoboken, N.J., U.S. died Jan. 10, 1937, Chicago. U.S. chemist who interpreted the behaviour and structure of organic compounds in the light of valence theory and applied the methods of physical chemistry to organic chemistry. </anno> </persName> </item> <item> <persName key="VHenri"> <foreName> Victor </foreName> <surname>Henri </surname> <anno>French physical chemist, born june, 6, 1872, Marseille; died June 21, 1940. </anno> </persName> </item> <item> <placeName key="528CS"> <name>528 Chestnut Street</name> <region> Coshocton, Ohio</region> <country> U. S.</country> <anno>From this location Carr wrote the letter to Victor Henri.</anno> </placeName> </item> <address> <name type="place" key="528CS"> 528 Chestnut Street, <lb> Coshocton, Ohio</lb></name></address> <item> 3 <orgName key="MHC"> <name>Mount Holyoke College</name> <region> Western Massachusetts</region> <country> U. S.</country> <anno>Mount Holyoke College is a highly selective, nondenominational, residential, liberal arts college enrolling approximately 2,100 women from across the U.S. and more than 80 other countries. The first of the Seven Sisters (the female equivalent of the predominantly male Ivy League), Mount Holyoke graduates independent critical thinkers who speak and write powerfully, are technologically savvy, and are distinguished by their ability to lead in a complex, pluralistic world.</anno> </orgName> </item> <item> <note key="ICT"> <name>International Critical Tables</name> <anno>International Critical Tables offers data on physical, thermodynamic, mechanical, and other key properties and is a major reference source used by those involved in chemistry, physics, and engineering..</anno> </note> </item> </list> International Critical Tables offers data on physical, thermodynamic, mechanical, and other key properties and is a major reference source used by those involved in chemistry, physics, and engineering. </back> </text> </TEI.2> 4
