Louis Ledoux: Papua New Guinea Collection

Letter from Mead to Ledoux, Oliver, Outbreak War

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Letter from Margaret Mead to Louis Pierre Ledoux regarding Eleanor and Douglas L.Oliver, outbreak of war.

Original handwritten and signed on University of Sydney stationary dated Nov. 22, 1939.

A very personal letter from Margaret Mead to Louis Pierre Ledoux. showing her fondness of him, referring to Eleanor’s ulcer cutting short her and Douglas L. Oliver’s fieldwork in Bougainville, the outbreak of war, and references to Hitler, the Australian war effort and "northern" trouble, the Canadian Air Force, etc.

Date: 1930’s
Material: Paperwork

Provenance: Louis Pierre Ledoux Collection