Louis Ledoux: Papua New Guinea Collection

Letter Margaret Mead to Ledoux, Tambunam NG 1938

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The Memo suggesting different approaches to writing and organizing the manuscript (lot #108).

Original, signed and typewritten Margaret Mead letter to Louis Pierre Ledoux dated Sept. 1938

Margaret Mead urges Louis Pierre Ledoux to send her a draft manuscript while she is still in New Guinea, refers to Bulletins that her mother should be forwarding to Louis Pierre Ledoux, Eleanor and Douglas L. Oliver’s time in Bougainville, and mentions Louis Pierre Ledoux’s collection of items at the mission in New Guinea, and Father Kirschbaum’s understanding of reporters twisting Louis Pierre Ledoux’s conversation with them.

(See Lot # 96)

Date: 1930’s
Material: Paperwork

Provenance: Louis Pierre Ledoux Collection