Letters : Mexico City, to James C. Pilling, Washington, D.C., 1888 May 18-1888 Aug. 31.

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Letters : Mexico City, to James C. Pilling, Washington, D.C., 1888 May 18-1888 Aug. 31.

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Two letters dated May 18 and August 31, 1888, from García Icazbalceta in Mexico City to James C. Pilling at the Smithsonian's Bureau of Ethnology in Washington, D.C., concerning their mutual research interests in linguistics.

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