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Acceptance letters from George Washington, Willa Cather, and Jonathan Zittrain
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Acceptance Letters - An Academy Tradition

The Academy Archives preserves and shares the acceptance letters of members. Selected letters are shared in online galleries and include letters from George Washington, Mary Leakey, and Nelson Mandela.
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Select Letters for Women’s History Month

The Academy’s Archives preserve letters of acceptance submitted by new members. A gallery of letters from women accepted to the Academy has been prepared for Women’s History Month.
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Music Notation by Touch

Benjamin Dearborn, an educator and inventor who was elected to the Academy in 1794, wrote to Academy president John Adams in August 1794, describing his design for a “Music Board” for the benefit of persons who are visually impaired...
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Expedition Behind Enemy Lines

At the 3rd Meeting of the Academy held on August 30,1780, Academy members voted to appoint "a Committee to confer with the Reverend and Honorable Corporation of the University of Cambridge upon pursuing measures to procure an accurate observation of the Solar eclipse..

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