Theodore Roosevelt letter to Elliott L. Coues, 1882 Apr. 21.

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Theodore Roosevelt letter to Elliott L. Coues, 1882 Apr. 21.

Roosevelt asks Coues for assistance in obtaining information on American shrews to help identify the specimens Roosevelt had collected in Maine and elsewhere. Roosevelt also offers his collection of a few hundred bird skins to the Smithsonian, including some he obtained while in Egypt and Syria.

2 sheets ([4] p.) ; 23 x 14 cm.

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