40. Handwritten letter to the commissioners of public parks, No. 1

A photocopy of a letter written by John Strong Newberry directed towards Frank Law Olmsted about the destruction of Hawkins's work at Central Park and requesting the Park Commissioners restore it for the sake of educating the general population of New York on the scientific topics. This letter's photocopy consists of three pages pasted into a folded sheet of lined paper with a description by Hawkins written on the outer leaf (this item, 40a), and a typed version is also included in this collection (see item 39 letter 5).

Newberry, J. S. (John Strong), 1822-1892

1872

Central Park (New York, N.Y.)

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Correspondence

Hawkins, B. Waterhouse (Benjamin Waterhouse), 1807-1894

ANSP-Coll-0803, Box 1, Folder 2

ansp-coll-0803no40a_001

Cataloging and digitizing made possible by the Getty Grant Program.

Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins Album

archives@ansp.org

Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University

This Digital Object is provided in a collection that is included in POWER Library: Pennsylvania Photos and Documents, which is funded by the Office of Commonwealth Libraries of Pennsylvania/Pennsylvania Department of Education.