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FROM
THE SECRETARY
UNIVERSITY MUSEUM
OXFORD
December 5, 1946
W. G. Wallace, Esq[uire]
61, East Avenue
Bournemouth
Dear Sir,
Thank you for your very kind offer to present to the Museum2 your collection of eoliths3 and examples of flint-knapping4 by Benjamin Harrison5. Mr T. K. Penniman6, the Curator of the Pitt-Rivers Museum7, which is our ethnological and archaeological department, would be most happy to accept your specimens for the collections under his care. They may be addressed either to me or directly to Mr Penniman.
Yours faithfully, | G. E. S. Turner [signature]
Assistant Secretary
Wrote Dec[ember]. 7th to post on 9th (Monday) Two boxes of Harrison’s flints & several letters re same8.
The letter is typewritten and signed in ink by the author. The page is numbered [WP16/2/63] in pencil in the top RH corner.
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A museum displaying the archaeological and anthropological collections of the University of Oxford. The museum is contiguous with the Oxford University Museum of Natural History (see Endnote 3).
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Status: Draft transcription [Letter (WCP6086.7036)]
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