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THBHandwritten Memo From Margaret Mead to Ledoux 1938
Lot 122
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Adventurer, Academic, Industrialist: Louis Pierre Ledoux 1936 New Guinea Expedition In early 1936, on recommendation by American anthropologist Margaret Mead, Louis Pierre Ledoux, headed to the lower eastern Sepik River of Papua New Guinea to study the Murik people. Willow Auction House jill@willowauctionhouse.com
Adventurer, Academic, Industrialist: Louis Pierre Ledoux 1936 New Guinea Expedition In early 1936, on recommendation by American anthropologist Margaret Mead, Louis Pierre Ledoux, headed to the lower eastern Sepik River of Papua New Guinea to study the Murik people. Willow Auction House jill@willowauctionhouse.com
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Letter from Margaret Mead to Louis Pierre Ledoux regarding content of his manuscript (Lot#108), and his collected items (lost).
Original handwritten memo by Margaret Mead to Louis Pierre Ledoux. Written onboard the MV Macdhui, near Rabaul, on Nov. 25, 1938
Includes Margaret Mead's intention to help Louis Pierre Ledoux with the Murik social structure, that his material "ought to make a very good book", that his lost items seem lost forever based on an enclosed letter dated Nov. 6 1938 (included) from Father de Bryn in Marienberg, New Guinea, and reference to Eleanor and Douglas L. Oliver.
Date: 1938
Material: PaperworkProvenance: Louis Pierre Ledoux Collection
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