Scope and Contents Consists largely of personal and business correspondence and material dealing with Boutwell's career as a geologist (maps, notebooks, manuscripts and illustrations, education, mineral samples, etc.). It also includes familial details (legal and other documentation of his divorce from Esther; family history, including documentation of his claim as a direct descendant of Francis Cooke, a passenger on the Mayflower, possessions of ancestors such as the medical notebooks of H.T. Boutwell,...

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Letter to Wyer, Librarian of the Denver Public Library, which concerns the various repositories where Jackson's photographic collections were preserved and from which copies could be solicited. The repositories were: The Colorado Historical Society; the Hayden series found in the U.S. Geological Survey; and the Ohio Art Company of Bryan, Ohio.