Field Notebook: Florida, Illinois, Massachusetts, Ohio, Quebec, Vermont, Wisconsin. 1933, 1934
Page 48
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Thursday July 12 1934 Dietred to London and got there at 9.20 A.M. Miss Le Vere and Miss Trimm worked at the Library and finished all the "Personal letters" in the Benj. Plattby Collection. Got considerable information and many letters were copied by Miss Trimm, but Miss Le Vere made many notes. I worked at the Administration Build- ing and looked through the Catalogue of Phillips Academy for the years 1857 to 1856. Checked out all the information about Colonel Charles Marsh. Here at Phillips Academy there is an immense amount of Benj. Plattby letters to him. There may be so boxes and tens of bundles of London newspapers having references to Benj. Plattby. Here is an immense amount of information of B.P. business as banker in London. It should be used by someone to write