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{"value"=>"<p>This single folder of correspondence consists primarily of letters Dellenbaugh exchanged with publishers and museums. The former are related to book publication; the latter to ethnographic and linguistic information he sought from museum specialists. Also included is information on paintings he made for the Museum of the American Indian, a few letters in which he discusses his travels in the West, his involvement with the Explorers Club in New York City, and the club's gift of a bell to Admiral R.E. Byrd.</p> <p>The publishing correspondence, predominantly from Henry Holt and Company, concerns a book Dellenbaugh was contracting to write featuring biographies of leading American explorers. While the book was ultimately not published, his notes and research (found in series II, Writings) were likely used for his 1905 work, <span class=\"title\">Breaking the wilderness; The story of the conquest of the far West, from the wanderings of Cabeza de Vaca, to the first descent of the Colorado by Powell, and the completion of the Union Pacific railway, with particular account of the exploits of trappers and traders</span>, published by G.P. Putnam's Sons.</p> <p>There is also a small amount of correspondence exchanged with New York Public Library director Harry M. Lydenberg regarding Dellenbaugh's donations to the library and common misconceptions regarding the second Powell expedition. For example, he informed Lydenberg that he had not traveled the entirety of the Grand Canyon by river, but rather exited at Kanab Canyon and continued with the party to survey by land. He also reiterated the assertion made in his 1908 book <span class=\"title\">A Canyon Voyage</span> that the measurements, drawings and photographs credited to the first expedition in Major Powell's <span class=\"title\">Exploration of the Colorado River of the West, 1869-1872</span>, were actually produced by the second expedition.</p> <p>Of further interest in the Dellenbaugh-Lydenberg correspondence is the informal report entitled \"Data on the Killing of Three of Major Powell's Men by the Shewits Indians in 1869 on the Shewits Plateau,\" which posits the location of the murders of the Howland brothers and William Dunn, quoting sources identifying a group of Shewits as responsible.</p> <p>The originals of the Dellenbaugh-Lydenberg correspondence are held in the collection dossier file, and are represented here in photocopy form.</p> <p>Other correspondents include writer and publisher Roland Holt and Admiral Richard E. Byrd.</p>"}
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