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| dc.date.accessioned | 2024-02-12T18:10:33Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2024-02-12T18:10:33Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 1950-04-11 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://repository.tcu.edu/handle/116099117/63105 | |
| dc.description | Letter to Clyde Reed requesting they keep an eye out for meteorites. | |
| 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, Florence, TX folder | |
| dc.subject | Meteorite | |
| dc.subject | Florence meteorite | |
| dc.subject | Florence (Tex.) | |
| dc.subject | Reed, Clyde | |
| dc.title | Correspondence presumably from Oscar E. Monnig to Clyde Reed, April 11, 1950 | |
| dc.type | Document | |
| dc.description.transcription | 1950, April 11. Mr. Clyde Reed Florence, Texas. Dear Mr. Reed: I was in your neighborhood on April 2, but didn’t have the nerve to drive across the culvert from the road to your house, and so missed you. I was talking to the people around there about the possibility of finding meteorites. I enclose a circular on the subject which I hope will interest you. I think there are some in that region because they generally fall in groups, and one fell there in January, 1922. It was an 8 pound rock and was picked up on the place now occupied by W. B. Reavis. As a freshly fallen meteorite, it was typically black, but any from that fall would probably be a rusty brown color by now. They are heavier than ordinary rocks for their size, and if you happen to see anything suspicious, looking different from the ordinary flint or limestone of that country, pick it up and check the relative weight. Just keep this in the back of your mind and I think there is a chance you may bump into a meteorite around there, either in the course of farm work or just while walking across the la nd some time. Yours sincerely, | |
