Record ID:
368689
Accession number:
MA 432.43
Credit:
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan before 1913.
Description:
1 item (1 p.) ; 11.4 cm
Notes:
The possible place name and date are not in Scott's hand.
Bound with a statement in an unknown hand [possibly the hand of A.P. Moore who wrote the preceding letter, MA 432.42] noting that this "is all in the author's hand writing, & was sent to me by a friend for whom he wrote it."
Part of a collection of letters from Sir Walter Scott, members of his family, and his biographer, John Gibson Lockhart. Items are described in individual records; see MA 432 for more details.
Summary:
Notes about a female skeleton found in Peru in 1824 by "Capt. J. M. Fergusson ... in his Majesty's service."
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