Artifacts & Documents: Manuscripts

Ebenezer Emmons Letter to Edward Hitchcock, July 22, 1840

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Ebenezer Emmons writes to Edward Hitchcock to say that he and the geologist Lardner Vanuxem plan to visit Amherst to see Hitchcock's tracks and would like to visit him as well. This visit convinced Emmons and Vanuxem that the marks were indeed birdlike footprints, as Hitchcock had said.

Creator:
Ebenezer Emmons
Date:
July 22, 1840
Courtesy of:
Nicholas McDonald