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Manuscripts
Sixteen of the seventeen letters are addressed to Charles Lummis. The authors include: Anthropologist Adolph Bandelier (written from Bolivia), writer Ella Higginson, historian and author J. Franklin Jameson (asking Lummis to write an article on Mexico), Lummis' second wife Eva, Henrietta Lungren (wife of Southwest artist Fernand Lungren), surgeon, ethnographer, and linguist Washington Matthews (about his book Navajo legends), author Grace Ellery Channing Stetson (and wife of artist Charles Stetson), Wells Fargo & Company president John J. Valentine (regarding U.S. politics), and stage actress Louise Wakelee Elliott. There is one letter by Charles Lummis to his wife Eve. This letter was written in 1896 while he was in Mexico.
mssHM 79080-79096