MS 7511 Letter to Theodore F. Dwight
odd: label: Local Numbers
content: NAA MS 7511
label: Local Note
content: Typescript letter signed
name: label: Creator
content: Pilling, James Constantine, 1846-1895
label: Addressee
content: Dwight, Theodore F.
creator: label: Creator
content: Pilling, James Constantine, 1846-1895
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Page
unitdate: label: Date
content: July 1, 1885
custodhist: label: Custodial History
content: The item was found in the back of a filing cabinet in the Smithsonian's Anthropology Library. How it got there is not known.
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.MS7511
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Pages
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Letter in response to Dwight's request for a copy of the Proof-sheets of a bibliography of the languages of the North American Indians. Pilling states that only 100 copies were printed and they were intended for students of the languages who might help him correct and expand it. The letter bears a stamp of the Library of the Department of State.