MS 4056 Letter to Professor Otis Tufton Mason, referring to a Manuscript "Choctaw Traditions"
odd: label: Local Numbers
content: NAA MS 4056
label: Local Note
content: Annotated letter signed
name: label: Creator
content: Berlin, Alfred Franklin, 1848-1925
label: Informant
content: Immatahah, Chahta
label: Transcriber
content: Lincecum, Gideon, 1793-1874
label: Correspondent
content: Baird, Spencer Fullerton, 1823-1887
label: Correspondent
content: Powell, John Wesley, 1834-1902
topic: label: Topic
content: Indians of North America -- Southern states
creator: label: Creator
content: Berlin, Alfred Franklin, 1848-1925
label: Informant
content: Immatahah, Chahta
label: Transcriber
content: Lincecum, Gideon, 1793-1874
label: Correspondent
content: Baird, Spencer Fullerton, 1823-1887
label: Correspondent
content: Powell, John Wesley, 1834-1902
culture: label: Culture
content: Choctaw
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Supplied information is from Doran's letter to Powell, February 21, 1889, and to Professor J. Henry, April 17, 1889 (Reference: Bureau of American Ethnology Letters Received, 1889, Doran file). No record of Berlin's earlier correspondence with Baird and Powell is found in Bureau of American Ethnology correspondence files, 11/71.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 4 Pages
unitdate: label: Date
content: undated
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.MS4056
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
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content: Pages
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: It is taken from Chahta immatahah, and written by Dr. Gideon Lincecum in 1822 or 1823, and to his earlier correspondence with Professor Baird and Major Powell, regarding the same Manuscript. Reading. Pennsylvania. May 12, 1879. Filed with the above Manuscript is a typescript copy of Powell's cover letter, returning a Choctaw manuscript, to Mrs. S.L. Doran (Dr. Lincecum's daughter.) Washington. June 25, 1889.