WCP6033

Letter (WCP6033.6982)

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BRITISH MUSEUM

LONDON, W.C.1

Dep[artmen]t of Ethnography.

19. 9. [19]462.

Dear Sir,

I thank you for your letter of the 17th. Sep[tember]. & for sending the package of N[orth] American stone implements. There are certainly a number of these which we should be very glad to have, including those from Turner Mounds3. But I shall have to postpone the final selection till my colleague, who deals with this subject, returns in October, & has time to [2] compare them closely with our existing collections.

When we have made our selection, I suppose you would like the remainder returned to you.

Yours faithfully, | H. J. Braunholtz [signature]

(Keeper)

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The letter is written on the headed notepaper of the British Museum. The royal coat of arms appears in the top LH corner. The page is numbered [WP16/2/11] in pencil in the top RH corner. The words "Ans[were]d Sep[tember]. 20. Return unwanted objects at leisure" are written in pencil vertically at the bottom of the LH margin.
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Year deduced from birth and death dates of the author.

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A complex culture of mound-builders flourished in what is now part of southern Ohio from about 800 B.C. to A.D. 400. The extensive Turner Mound group of earthworks, some more than 15m high, are the legacy of the Hopewell and Adena people. Mica and copper ornaments, ostentatious burials, and the remains of large wooden structures, figurines modelled in clay and worked human bone objects are often found at their mound sites.

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Transcribed by O'Dell, Sandra [2018-08-15]

Please cite as “WCP6033,” in Beccaloni, G. W. (ed.), Ɛpsilon: The Alfred Russel Wallace Collection accessed on 19 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/wallace/letters/WCP6033