Re: Copper Casting In America (Trevelyan)

From: Eric Stevens (eric.stevens_at_sum.co.nz)
Date: 07/03/04 

Date: Sat, 03 Jul 2004 21:49:43 +1200

On Sat, 03 Jul 2004 01:38:33 -0500, Tom McDonald
<tmcdonald2672@charter.net> wrote:

>Eric Stevens wrote:
>
>> On Fri, 02 Jul 2004 22:11:26 -0500, Tom McDonald
>> <tmcdonald2672@charter.net> wrote:
>
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>>> Who did you contact about Mallery's papers? Would it help, do
>>>you think, for me to contact them as well?
>>
>>
>> It vanished with a past computer crash. I originally wrote to the
>> Smithsonian and they then referred me to a person at the (?) National
>> archives (?). I contacted that person who referred me to another who
>> never gave me a meaningful response no matter how I (gently) pressed
>> them. I think a fresh start is a very good idea.
>
>Eric,
>
> Yup, I agree. I guess I have to, since your crash leaves us
>bereft of stale starts :-).
>
> I'd appreciate any thoughts you have on contacting folks about
>this. Wasn't there some small museum that might have received
>Mallery's papers after his death?

Only if you call the Smithsonian small. :-)

My contact there did confirm that they once had them.

>
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>>>>> We don't know whether Ellinger is being quoted from a report, a
>>>>>letter, a conversation, or what. We can't follow up on this to
>>>>>see whether Mallery got it right.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>I agree. I'm trying to use Mallery as incontestable proof of copper
>>>>casting. I was merely disputing the implication that Gary Coffman had
>>>>settled the matter.
>>
>>
>> Oops - I meant "I'm NOT trying ... "
>
> I figured that. You don't suppose I'd let that pitch hang up
>there if I thought you actually *meant* it as written, do you? :-).
>
>Tom McDonald

Eric Stevens