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Benjamin Silliman's Letter to Edward Hitchcock, July 22, 1835

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Benjamin Silliman tells Edward Hitchcock about a plaster cast of bird tracks found in red sandstone he has recently received from James Deane. Silliman wants to write about the tracks in his American Journal of Science but requests that Hitchcock give his opinion of them first so that Silliman might avoid writing something erroneous. He compliments Orra, saying that "when a good wife is with her husband there is always home."

Creator:
Benjamin Silliman
Date:
July 22, 1835
Courtesy of:
Edward and Orra White Hitchcock Papers, Amherst College Archives and Special Collections, Amherst College Library