Letter to Taylor from Leverett, August 3, 1919
Scope and Contents
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: August 3, 1919
Conditions Governing Access
The collection is open for research.
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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
General
From the field near Owosso, MI. Rec'd your card from Mackinac Island. I am now doing the Chesaning Quad and will use Chesaning as a base and mail point for the coming week, returning to Ann Arbor at the end of the week. I find the highest Saginaw is very poorly developed most of the way but it is good in some places. One such place is 1 mi. S of Easton where it is 4-5' high and 15-20 rods wide, running slightly above the 735' contour, and composed of sandy gravel. The highest Arkona is 728' at Easton and above 725' in New Haven Tp. The next Arkona is above the 715' contour through much of New Haven Tp. I did not find any morainic features there in New Haven Tp, so I am wondering what you classed as a moraine there. The surface is generally so level, with scarcely a 10' knoll and very few 5' ones. I do not find bowlder belts. I have sold the little house on Hill Street for cash and the one on Mich. Ave. on contract to the man who has been renting it for years. I bought 10 acres just outside the city limits on W Liberty Street adjoing the University Forest of 43 acres. It overlooks the city and the Huron Valley. There is a possibility of developing this tract into an attractive residential district. The 10 acres E of it will have 4 good houses. I am planning to sell it in tracts of 1-2 acres (or more) to persons who will put up good buildings with attractive grounds. I got this for $500 an acre, and the man who sold it says he will present me with a $100.00 suit of clothes if it is not worth twice as much in 5 years. Mrs. L and I like the back end the best so we may hold on to that piece and evenutally build on it. Perhaps you will like the place well enough to buy and build up there too? I am going to the UP for a month to work in Menominee Co. to supplement Russell's previous work which was too limited.
Repository Details
Part of the Stephen O. Murray and Keelung Hong Special Collections Repository