Lewis Henry Morgan, 1818-1891 papers, ca. 1839-ca. 1885.

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Lewis Henry Morgan, 1818-1891 papers, ca. 1839-ca. 1885.

Letters, 1839-85, including correspondence with Henry Adams, Adolph F. Bandelier, Charles Darwin, Joseph Henry, Francis Parkman, Herbert Spencer, Lorimer Fison, James Hall, Ely S. Parker, John Wesley Powell, Frederic W. Putnam, Henry R. Schoolcraft (some copies of letters in other repositories). Also mss. of books, articles, and addresses; ms. journals of investigations into customs of Seneca Nation at the Tonawanda Reservation and of Indians of the upper Great Lakes and Great Plains; journals of trips to Europe, 1870-71, and New Mexico, 1878. Also documents and papers of Grand Order of the Iroquois, 1841-47; family Bible; inventory of library, 1851-81; business papers; memorabilia; scrapbook on visit of Albert Edward, Prince of Wales (later Edward VII) to the U.S., 1860; and photographs.

12.0 cubic ft., 64 v.

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SNAC Resource ID: 6746065

University of Rochester

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Morgan, Lewis Henry, 1818-1881

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Anthropologist. From the description of Lewis Henry Morgan, 1818-1891 papers, ca. 1839-ca. 1885. (University of Rochester). WorldCat record id: 122519515 Lewis Henry Morgan was an ethnologist and anthropologist. From the description of Journal and correspondence, 1845-1876. (American Philosophical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 122632850 From the guide to the Lewis Henry Morgan journal and correspondence, 1845-1876, 1845-1876, (American Philosophi...