Name/Title
Letter from Grace Nicholson to Harry GeorgeEntry/Object ID
Q1430.635.53CDescription
Vol II pg. 53C
Letter from Grace Nicholson to Harry George regarding baskets he is interested in and some of her recent buying trips.
Sept. 14, 1912.
Mr. Harry L. George,
201 Saxton Bank Bldg.,
St Joseph, Mo.
Dear Mr. George,
Am glad you received my postals. My trip this year seemed to take me to such out of the way places that I could not even find postal cards, and in many of the places it was even difficult to find crackers to eat. Surely Arizona and New Mexico trips are something fierce. Distances are long and transportation high priced and difficult’ Now that I am home I am of course thankful that I made the trip and had good success. Nine tenths of all of the pieces I found is good museum material. It would take too much time to write details of the material secured but I am sure that if you were here you you would find a great many things which would be a great addition to your collection.
I am not particularly anxious for Alaskan material, especially at the prices Lieut. Emmons asks, therefore I am not interested in his entire collection.
If you will let me know just what you require to perfect your collection of Alaskan or other material I could probably furnish same without your being obliged to buy an entire collection thereby giving you many undesirable duplicates.
I intended to make a personal visit to the Philadelphia and Denver parties you wrote me had collections for sale, as I find this is about the only satisfactory way to purchase old Indian Baskets or other Indian collections. People usually have so much which is of little value, or have an idea that their collection is worth a vast amount of money, – at the same time they have never made any study of basketry and do not know where many of their Baskets originated.
The only Baskets you requested me to place aside for you were a few specimens of genuine Shasta, Siskiyou Co., Indian work. I have a small utility Baskets 3777 of good design and workmanship $4.00 – a typical gift Basket 3989 in dark brown at $7.50 – 3771 – old style red Basket at $5.00 and a good specimen of old wicker work at $2.00.
You were going to write me about some Basket with a handle but have never done so.
Would be intereszted for details regarding the Sioux Collection, especially if it is old material.
Very truly yours,
Grace NicholsonSubject
Grace Nicholson
Pasadena, California
Emmons
Alaska
Baskets
Shasta
SiouxSubject Person/Organization
Harry L. George Collection
