Letter : Chicago, [Ill.], to [Clara A.] Smith, Newberry Library, Chicago, [Ill.], 1914 Feb. 14.

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Letter : Chicago, [Ill.], to [Clara A.] Smith, Newberry Library, Chicago, [Ill.], 1914 Feb. 14.

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February 14, 1914, letter from Camp to Clara A. Smith, custodian of the Ayer Collection at the Newberry Library, enclosing his correspondence with Aloysius Vrebosch regarding the authorship of a Crow grammar at the library.

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Newberry Library

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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...

Edward E. Ayer Manuscript Collection (Newberry Library)

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Smith, Clara A.

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Bosschi, John.

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Vrebosch, Aloysius

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Crimont, Joseph Raphael, 1858-1945

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Camp, Walter Mason, 1867-1925

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Born in 1867, Walter Mason Camp was a civil engineer who worked for the railroad and spent many summers traveling throughout the country interviewing various participants and survivors of the Indian wars. He died in 1925. From the guide to the Camp mss., 1873-1918, (Lilly Library (Indiana University, Bloomington)) Railway engineer; editor; and, (avocationally) a historian of the Indian Wars of the U.S. Plains, 1865-1890. He avidly researched the Indian wars from 1890 to 1925...