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Box 14

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Contains 40 Results:

Several manuscript chapters, introduction and appendices of John Abbot manuscript and correspondence, undated

 File — Box: 14, Folder: 10
Scope and Contents

Includes a rejection letter from the Cornell University Press, 1965 and a reprint of a summary of the Abbot project for a grant given by the American Philosophical Society

Dates: undated

Early John Abbot manuscript, undated

 File — Box: 14, Folder: 13
Scope and Contents

"Early and not good probably should be destroyed"

Dates: undated

Copies of deeds for a different John Abbot, undated

 File — Box: 14, Folder: 15
COLLECTION DESCRIPTION From the Collection: Papers consist largely of research notes and manuscript materials for her book "The History of American Ornithology Before Audubon" published in 1951, her unpublished biographical study of the colonial naturalist, John Abbot, and other published and unpublished work on early ornithologists such as Mark Catesby and Alexander Wilson. Research includes correspondence with professional colleagues; photographs of early ornithologists and ornithological illustrations; pamphlets; travel literature;...
Dates: undated

Copy of "Drawings and Natural History of the Birds of Georgia, in America" by John Abbot, undated

 File — Box: 14, Folder: 17
COLLECTION DESCRIPTION From the Collection: Papers consist largely of research notes and manuscript materials for her book "The History of American Ornithology Before Audubon" published in 1951, her unpublished biographical study of the colonial naturalist, John Abbot, and other published and unpublished work on early ornithologists such as Mark Catesby and Alexander Wilson. Research includes correspondence with professional colleagues; photographs of early ornithologists and ornithological illustrations; pamphlets; travel literature;...
Dates: undated