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THBLetter from Mead to Ledoux, Oliver, Outbreak War
Lot 139
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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 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: PaperworkProvenance: Louis Pierre Ledoux Collection
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