[Navajo vocabulary and related correspondence]
odd: label: Local Numbers
content: MS 97 Navajo vocabulary
name: label: Creator
content: Carleton, James Henry, 1814-1873
label: Creator
content: Bristol, Henry B.
label: Addressee
content: Henry, Joseph, 1797-1878
label: Collection Creator
content: Gibbs, George, 1815-1873
creator: label: Creator
content: Carleton, James Henry, 1814-1873
label: Creator
content: Bristol, Henry B.
label: Addressee
content: Henry, Joseph, 1797-1878
setName: label: See more items in
content: MS 9 George Gibbs collection
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content: MS 9 George Gibbs collection / Vocabularies recorded by others / Carleton, James H.
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1865-1866
container: label: Container
content: Box 4, Folder 9
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Contains:

(1) A letter from Henry to Carleton, requesting vocabularies "particularly of the Pueblo Indians" and others, dated March 10, 1865, Washington, DC.  There is an endorsement on the reverse from Carleton to Bristol, dated April 23, 1865.  Also enclosed in a list by Gibbs of vocabularies already obtained and those needed.

(2)  A letter from Bristol to Carleton, enclosing a Navajo vocabulary [(3)] and a letter to be forwarded to Joseph Henry ([4)], dated May 8, 1865, Fort Sumner, New Mexico.  There is an endorsement on the reverse by Carleton to Henry, dated July 4, 1865.  

(3) A Navajo vocabulary, obtained at Bosque Redondo or Pecos River Reservation, April-May 1865 from "a Mexican captive named Jesus who has been among the Navajoes since a child."

(4) A letter from Bristol to Henry, transmitting the vocabulary and containing remarks on Navajo customs, dated May 7, 1865, Fort Sumner, New Mexico. 

(5) A draft of a letter from Gibbs to Carleton requesting Pueblo vocabularies, dated August 23, 1866, Washington, DC.