Letter : Boston, to J.W. Powell, Washington, D.C., [1885] May 18.

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Letter : Boston, to J.W. Powell, Washington, D.C., [1885] May 18.

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May 18, 1885, letter to John Wesley Powell, director of the Smithsonian Institution's Bureau of Ethnology, 1879-1902, forwarding a vocabulary of the Passamaquoddy dialect and requesting a copy of the Bureau's second annual report.

1 item (1 sheet folded to 4 p.) ; 18 cm.

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Powell, John Wesley, 1834-1902

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The Newberry was founded on July 1, 1887 and opened for business on September 6 of that year. The Newberry’s establishment came about because of a contingent provision in the will of Chicago businessman Walter L. Newberry (1804-68), which left what later amounted to approximately $2.2 million for the foundation of a “free, public” library on the north side of the Chicago River, if his two children died without issue. After the deaths of Mr. Newberry’s daughters and then, in 1885, of his widow, t...

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Alger, Abby Langdon

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Alger was a translator. From the description of Letter, 1877. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 232007500 Boston resident, professional translator, and author of In Indian tents, a volume of Penobscot, Passamaquoddy, and Micmac stories and legends. From the description of Letter : Boston, to J.W. Powell, Washington, D.C., [1885] May 18. (Newberry Library). WorldCat record id: 35987277 ...