dc.creator | Charlton, O. C. | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2024-02-12T18:09:36Z | |
dc.date.available | 2024-02-12T18:09:36Z | |
dc.date.issued | 1901-04-22 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://repository.tcu.edu/handle/116099117/63039 | |
dc.description | Handwritten letter from O. C. Charlton with Baylor University in correspondence with George P. Merrill from the U. S. National Museum discussing how to slice the samples. | |
dc.relation | Oscar Monnig Papers (MS 124) | |
dc.rights | Prior written permission from TCU Special Collections required to use any document or photograph. | |
dc.source | Series III, Box 06, Fayette Co., Texas correspondence folder | |
dc.subject | Meteorite | |
dc.subject | Fayette County meteorite | |
dc.subject | Fayette County (Tex.) | |
dc.subject | Smithsonian Institution | |
dc.subject | Charlton, O. C. | |
dc.subject | Merrill, George P. | |
dc.title | Correspondence from O. C. Charlton to George P. Merrill, April 22, 1901 | |
dc.type | Document | |
dc.description.transcription | Baylor University O. C. Charlton, Department of Natural Science Waco, Texas, April 22, 1901 Mr. Geo. P. Merrill U. S. National Museum, Washington, D. C. Dear Sir: I today express you one of the masses of the Fayette County Meteorite which I have had about one year. Please to examine it carefully and slice it in the way which will make the resulting slices of most value. I suggest four slices which will require three cuttings each slice to show a goodly portion of the weathered surface. Keep it yourself and slice thick cuts to repay you for your work. Perhaps you might take a little more than enough to repay you for your trouble and send me as compensation a small piece of some other meteorite of a different kind. All these matters I entrust to your judgement and fairness [unintelligible] that will do what is best. I prepay express age. I hope this stone will reach you in time for your attention before you go away. My delays in regard to it have not been altogether inexcusable. Beside full college work I have been so situated that extra duties were always demanding my time. Sincerely O. C. Charlton | |