Object Details
- General note
- M109 is accession number in the Russell E. Train inventory list of the Joseph F. Cullman 3rd Library of Natural History.
- Collection Creator
- Train, Russell E., 1920-2012
- Russell E. Train Africana Collection (Smithsonian. Libraries)
- See more items in
- Russell E. Train Africana collection
- Russell E. Train Africana collection / Series 5: Manuscripts
- Extent
- 1 Item (Correspondence, 5.25 x 8.5 in.)
- Date
- 1911 October 8
- Container
- Item M109
- Archival Repository
- Smithsonian Libraries
- Type
- Archival materials
- Collection Rights
- The collection is housed in the Joseph F. Cullman 3rd Library of Natural History, which is open to researchers Monday through Friday in the afternoons, from 1:30 to 5:00 p.m.; morning visits are by appointment only. Please call (202) 633-1184 or email AskaLibrarian@si.edu for an appointment.
- Scope and Contents note
- Millais wrote, "Glad to hear you are off on your travels in Africa. I hope you will have a real good time with all those wonderful beasts we have all read so much about." Millais describes his own recent trip to Norway and finishes with a sketch depicting Selous, with rifle, mounted on a mule, followed by a number of Africans dragging a dead buffalo and dead rhinoceros.
- Record ID
- ebl-1503510890585-1503510890711-1
