Manuscripts
Horatio Nelson Rust letter to Major William S. Beebe
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- Description
- In this letter, written from Colton, California, Rust is answering a letter he received from Major William S. Beebe regarding archaeological tablets. Rust states that he had casts of several tablets including the Davenport tablets, which were found during an archaeological excavation by Reverend Jacob Gass in 1867 in a mound near Davenport, Iowa. (These tablets were later found to be fakes.) Rust also states that he published a paper with the American Association for the Advancement of Science, giving his interpretation of the tablets that he got from the "Old Mandan and other Old Dakotas." The letter is written on United States Indian Service letterhead.
- Production date
- 1891, February 13.
- Call number
- mssHM 69391
- Provenance
- Purchased from Autograph Alcove, October 2, 1989.
