Letter to Taylor from Leverett, May 31, 1907

Item — Box: 1, Folder: 13

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Scope and Contents

From the Series:

The correspondence series includes approximately 1100 letters written between 1892-1939. The majority of the collection are letters between Frank Leverett and Frank Bursley Taylor; they discuss their field work, Monograph 53, other publications and various related problems. There is also other correspondence with other geologists, including T.C. Chamberlin, Grove K. Gilbert, J.W. Goldthwait, H.L. Fairchild, et alia. There is extensive correspondence with the U.S. Geological Survey, the Geological Survey of Canada, and the Michigan Geological Survey. The primary subject of this series is the surficial glacial geology of the midwestern U.S. and Canada. Leverett & Taylor's work was essential for understanding how the Great Lakes were formed as the Pleistocene glaciers advanced and retreated from the midwestern states. The letters describe the 30 year process of gathering data, mapping the data and constructing the picture of glacial processes during the last Ice Age.

Dates

Creation: May 31, 1907

Conditions Governing Access

The collection is open for research.

Conditions Governing Access

The material is stored offsite in Remote Storage. Please contact Special Collections 3 working days in advance if you wish to use it.

Extent

From the Collection: 1 Linear Feet

Language of Materials

English

Additional Description

General

Rec'd several postcards from the Mediterranean. Lane has shown me a card saying you were sailing for the US on May 22, so I presume you are now home. You may be surprised to hear that Mrs. L and I have decided to go to Europe next year. We will leave here at the holidays and go via Gibralter to Naples, Rome, Venice, Munich, and possibly Berlin. We will stay there until spring comes and then spend the field season looking to compare the drift sheets in America with those in N and S German drift. In August we will see the Alpine glaciers, and then study a little in France, England, Ireland and Great Britain. I wish to talk over the whole matter with you at some early date. Did you find glaciation around Granada. I would like to visit the Alhambra and see Grenada and the glaciation of the Sierra Madre. I have plugging away at the Monograph and hope to have my part done in July. Perhaps you can have your part ready before I leave, or if not, at least we could decide on illustrations. My field work this year will be the Driftless Area of the Upper Mississippi with Rollin Chamberlin; we will work till October. Let me hear from you when you get settled upon returning. Heard a fine address from Roosevelt at the M.A.C. this afternoon; I was delegate for the GSA. Wish you could join me for some of this European study.