MS 1219-b Letter to Professor Baird, Secretary Smithsonian Institution, from E. A. Barber, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, April 19, 1882
odd: label: Local Numbers
content: NAA MS 1219-b
name: label: Collector
content: Hoffman, Walter James, 1846-1899
label: Creator
content: Barber, Edwin Atlee, 1851-1916
label: Addressee
content: Baird, Spencer Fullerton, 1823-1887
label: Creator
content: Mason, Otis Tufton, 1838-1908
topic: label: Topic
content: Music
label: Topic
content: Circulars, anthropological
creator: label: Collector
content: Hoffman, Walter James, 1846-1899
label: Creator
content: Barber, Edwin Atlee, 1851-1916
label: Addressee
content: Baird, Spencer Fullerton, 1823-1887
label: Creator
content: Mason, Otis Tufton, 1838-1908
culture: label: Culture
content: American Indian
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 10 Pages
unitdate: label: Date
content: May 5, 1882
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.MS1219B
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Pages
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Encloses a "circular" which he has prepared, consisting of a series of 94 questions, for the purpose of facilitating the collection of material for a study of native North American music. Letters of comment by O. T. Mason and Professor Baird, indicating they feel the circular too elaborate for use by the Smithsonian Institution. Also letter of transmission, 1 page.