Letter to Taylor from Leverett, June 4, 1918

Item — Box: 2, Folder: 11

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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: June 4, 1918

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

I was kept in Shreveport unntil May 14, May Festival week. Since we did not see you, I assume you did not come. I was conferring with Marbut May 16-17 in Battle Creek. Marbut wanted to check the Bureau of Soils work against my maps of glacial features in Calhoun Co. He supplied the auto and we toured much of the county. The close relationship between types of soils and glacial features was very gratifying. The Calhoun Co. soil report will be issued soon, probably before my report on Camp Custer & the region. Allen thinks it advisable to include the Kalamazoo quadrangle with the four that center around Camp Custer in the Bulletin of the Michigan Geol. Survey. There will be a special description of the country around the Camp printed on the back of the sheet. Campbell, Matthis and Alden went after my MS like a pack of hounds; I would not accept their mangled version. The matter is still hanging fire but I expect it will be cleaned up to my satisfaction soon. It is ridiculous for an author who knows the ground to have critics who don't know the ground and have no special literary skill, take the MS and distort matters of secondary import over those primary issues. Mr Alden writes that he will start work under Vaughan in mid May on the Coastal Plain and asked me to report to David White when I would be available for the same work. I wrote White that it seemed wiser for me complete the first draft of the MN report which may take several months. I would rather work there in late fall and winter than in summer. We hope you can carry out your plan of coming to live in Ann Arbor in a few months. You should be able to get good bargains in real estate now as many houses are empty. I can be on the lookout if I know what kind of property would interest you. I am doing some war gardening this year and have 2/5 acre in potatoes, sweet corn and beans. Hobbs is back now and working on a report on war matters. I hope your work in settling the estate is going well, and you may soon come up here. P.S. I rec'd today from Blatchly an interesting paper on a century of Indiana geology. Do you have his address? I would like to write and thank him.