WCP6069

Letter (WCP6069.7019)

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From the CURATOR, PITT RIVERS MUSEUM

UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD

6 December 1947.

Dear Mr. Wallace,

We shall be very glad to see the arrow-heads, and will let you know when they arrive and we have looked at them. We shall be very glad indeed of the United States Geological Survey Monograph with the atlas of maps, published in 18822. We do not need the Handbook of South American Indians Vol[ume]. 23, as we already have it, as well as other volumes from the Bureau of American Ethnology4. The moccasins would certainly be of interest to us, as we already have a good collection, and Mr. Turner5 of the University Museum is very keen about the documentation and display of our American Indian material. He has made a special section on types of moccasins.

Yours sincerely, | T. K. Penniman. [signature]

T. K. Penniman.

W. G. Wallace, Esq[uire].,

61, East Avenue,

Bournemouth.

Moccasins posted Dec[ember] 8th 6

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Two pairs of small Indian moccasins which A[lfred]. R[ussel]. W[allace]. purchased in Denver, Colo[rado]. 1897 for V[iolet]. I[sabel]. W[allace].8 and me

W[illiam]. G[reenell]. W[allace]

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The letter is typewritten and signed in ink. The page is numbered [WP16/2/46] in pencil in the top RH corner.

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Dutton, C. E. (1882) Tertiary history of the Grand Cañon district with atlas. United States Geological Survey, Washington, Government Printing Office (See WCP6073).
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Steward, ed., J. H. (1946) Handbook of South American Indians, Volume 2: The Andean Civilizations Washington, DC, Smithsonian Institution.
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Established in 1879 to transfer archives, records and materials relating to the Indians of North America from the Interior Department to the Smithsonian Institution. The bureau's founding director, John Wesley Powell promoted a broader mission "to organize anthropologic research in America."
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Turner, Geoffrey E. S. (1910-1984) Appointed Junior Assistant at the University Museum in Oxford (now the University Museum of Natural History) in 1928. His last title was Assistant Secretary to the University Museum. He was an authority on American Indians.

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Annotation in pencil in the hand of the recipient.
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The annotation is written in ink in the hand of the recipient on the back of the letter.
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Wallace, Violet Isabel (1869-1945) Daughter and second child of ARW, sister of the recipient.

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

Please cite as “WCP6069,” in Beccaloni, G. W. (ed.), Ɛpsilon: The Alfred Russel Wallace Collection accessed on 28 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/wallace/letters/WCP6069