Object Details
- General note
- From the Nelson archival collection. NelM006d. 2 is the 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 8: Robert Henry Nelson personal papers
- Extent
- 2 Items (Correspondence, 8.25 x 13 in. or smaller.)
- Date
- 1891 May 11
- Container
- Item NelM006d2
- 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
- The letter from Robert Henry Nelson to his father acknowledges a letter of reference written by Henry Morton Stanley for him to William Mackinnon, praising Nelson's efforts on the Emin Pasha Relief expedition; together with a copy of Stanley's letter of reference to Mackinnon dated 9 [May] 1891 written from York station hotel.
- Record ID
- ebl-1503510890585-1503510890743-2
