Kenneth Spencer Research Library Archival Collections

C.B. Hoffman, born in Atzmoos, Switzerland in 1851, came at age 3 to the United States with his family. The collection primarily consists of materials related to Hoffman's activities as a socialist from 1910-1915, containing correspondence, manuscript articles and notes by Hoffman, and scattered personal and business papers.

This collection comprises a single manuscript volume containing a novel entitled "Un Voyage aérien; dans cinquante ans," written by Eugène Farcot, a French scientist and engineer known especially as a clockmaker but with a strong interest in aeronautics. The novel describes a fantastic voyage, set fifty years in the future in 1914, to Africa in a large, steam-powered dirigible airship. The novel has 13 chapters; each chapter is foliated separately.