Correspondence, 1930

File — Box: 17, Folder: 14-16

Identifier: IV

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

This correspondence continued with inquiries about fossils and oil with Douglass writing detailed answers to all the questions, ever generous in sharing his knowledge, experience, and collections.

1 July--To President George Thomas, University of Utah, offering the university some of his collections and to continue collecting for the institution. He wrote that he had been "shut out entirely from any connection with the University.

"To do the work I wish to do and should do it will be necessary to be financed. This is why I am writing to those in the East who are interested . . . and why I came to write to you. . . . I am more convinced than formerly that in Utah there will some time be one of the greatest schools of geological learning and research in the world . . . . The rocks, the formations, cross sections of the earth's history, the ancient life and the processes which have made the earth are all, or nearly all, here in easy reach and blessed will be geologists eyes when they "

There are similar offers to several major institutions all of whom were unable to finance either the purchase of Douglass's collections or a dig for camel fossils in Montana.

accepted for publication Douglass's article "A Remarkable Fossil Plant," on the prickly pear.

22 December--Douglass to Dr. George Thomas again offering him his collection since "I, of course, need a little money soon; but for the greater part of it I feel confident that I could await your convenience." (Douglass had been told by his physician that he must have surgery.)

Dates

1930

Language of Materials

From the Collection: Collection materials are in English.

Conditions Governing Access

Twenty-four hour advanced notice encouraged. Materials must be used on-site. Access to parts of this collection may be restricted under provisions of state or federal law.