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Howland Wood Fonds
Fonds
4 cm of textual records
Numaticist and collector Howland Wood was born in New Bedford, Massachusetts, in 1877 and graduated from Brown University in 1900. Wood became a member of the American Numismatical Society in 1909. By 1913 he had been appointed Curator, remaining in this position until his death in 1938.
Fonds contains forty-three letters to Casey A. Wood from Howland Wood describing the Gampala Larin hoard and the finding coins in Ceylon, 1929-1934.
Typescript originals.
Described in American Numismatic Society" Numismatic Notes on Monographs" No.61.