John Francis Stimson Papers, circa 1930-1958.

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John Francis Stimson Papers, circa 1930-1958.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/657658047

American ethnologist and linguist. This collection includes manuscripts, transcripts, pre-publication materials, and photographs collected by J. Frank Stimson in his research on the Tuamotu culture. It includes material from several authors and spans a period of about twenty years from the early 1930s through the 1950s. The majority of the collection consists of original documents used by Stimson in his research and writing.

21 boxes (12 linear feet)

Peabody Essex Museum

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SNAC Resource ID: 7949765

Peabody Essex Museum

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Frank Stimson was Eleanor Stimson Brooks's brother (and thus Van Wyck Brooks's brother-in-law). Though he studied to become an architect, he ended up in Tahiti doing Polynesian linguistic work. His removed presence and taking of a Polynesian common law wife, Kotirau, estranged him from his three children (Cookie, Francis and Odette), though he kept in contact with his sister and the Brooks family. From the description of Correspondence to Eleanor Stimson Brooks, 1937. (University of ...