Adventurer, Academic, Industrialist: Louis Pierre Ledoux 1936 New Guinea Expedition
In early 1936, on recommendation by American anthropologist Margaret Mead, Louis Pierre Ledoux, recent Harvard University graduate, headed to the lower eastern Sepik River of Papua New Guinea to study the Murik people.
The results of his self-funded expedition is an extraordinary collection of hundreds of artifacts, photographs, manuscripts, diaries, and letters left untouched for 85 years.
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LOT 139:
Letter from Mead to Ledoux, Oliver, Outbreak War
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Letter from Mead to Ledoux, Oliver, Outbreak War
Letter from Margaret Mead to Louis Pierre Ledoux regarding Eleanor and Douglas L.Oliver, outbreak of war.
Original handwritten and signed on University of Sydney stationary dated Nov. 22, 1939.
A very personal letter from Margaret Mead to Louis Pierre Ledoux. showing her fondness of him, referring to Eleanor's ulcer cutting short her and Douglas L. Oliver's fieldwork in Bougainville, the outbreak of war, and references to Hitler, the Australian war effort and "northern" trouble, the Canadian Air Force, etc.
Date: 1930's
Material: Paperwork
Provenance: Louis Pierre Ledoux Collection
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