Correspondence
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Freer, Charles Lang, 1856-1919
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content: Charles Lang Freer Papers
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content: Charles Lang Freer Papers / Series 8: Biblical Manuscripts and Gold Treasure Files
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1907-1920
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: FSA.A.01, Subseries 8.1
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: Comprises correspondence concerning the Biblical manuscripts and gold treasure purchased by Charles Lang Freer in Egypt, especially with respect to the publication of scholarly monographs about these objects. In Subseries 1.1, most of the correspondence is with Francis W. Kelsey of the University of Michigan. Subseries 1.2 consists of acknowledgements of receipt thanking Freer for copies of the published works. Most are formal documents from colleges and universities; a few are from individuals commenting on the importance or date of a manuscript.