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Letters, 1873

File consists of 52 letters dating from 1873, including family as well as professional correspondence

Dawson, George Mercer, 1849-1901

Letters, 1874

File consists of 34 letters dating from 1874, a mixture of personal and professional correspondence.

Dawson, George Mercer, 1849-1901

Letters, 1875

File consists of 73 letters dating from 1875, both professional and personal correspondence.

Dawson, George Mercer, 1849-1901

Letters, 1876

File consists of 75 letters and memos dating from 1876. File contains both personal and professional correspondence, including letters regarding the International Exhibition in Philadelphia. Many letters and copies of letters are recommendation letters for George Mercer Dawson to the Minister of the Interior for a position as paleontologist with the Geological Survey of Canada. One letter discusses the residential school run by the Yakima Indian Agency at Fort Simcoe, Washington.

Dawson, George Mercer, 1849-1901

Letters, 1879

File consists of 11 letters dating from 1879. Letters are from professional colleagues, including Sandford Fleming of the Canadian Pacific Railway and Daniel M. Gordon, who went on an expedition with George Mercer Dawson in 1879 to explore possible routes for the Pacific railway. Two letters and a memorandum are between George Mercer Dawson and his assistant, R. G. McConnell. One letter from missionary W. H. Collison discusses Collison's observations of the naming customs among the Haida of Haida Gwaii (coastal British Columbia).

Dawson, George Mercer, 1849-1901

Letters, 1880

File consists of five letters dating from 1880, including a postcard from George's sister Eva.

Dawson, George Mercer, 1849-1901

Letters, 1881

File consists of 26 letters, including both professional and family correspondence, dating from 1881.

Dawson, George Mercer, 1849-1901

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