Letters, 1929-1931, to Perry Walton, Boston.

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Letters, 1929-1931, to Perry Walton, Boston.

https://catalog.bostonathenaeum.org/vwebv/holdingsInfo?bibId=448849

Includes one letter (1931 Oct. 26) regarding hunting for walrus - "the animals are getting scarce ... bootlegging is more profitable ..."

3 items, in folder ; 26 cm.

Boston Athenaeum

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Walton, Perry, 1865-1941

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Bartlett, Bob, 1875-1946

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Robert Abram Bartlett (b. August 15, 1875, Brigus, Newfoundland-d. April 28, 1946, New York City), ship captain and Arctic explorer, piloted numerous expeditions to Greenland and locations in the Arctic Circle. He piloted Admiral Peary's vessel Roosevelt during the 1906 attempt to reach the North Pole. Later he was master of schooner Effie M. Morrissey. Beginning in the mid-1920's, he collected zoological specimens for the United States National Museum (USNM) on his many expeditions to the A...