Box 11, Folder 8, Correspondence October to December 1873

Moses Strong

[illegible] Wis Oct 3 1873

Dr. I.A. Lapham.

Dear Sir,

I am in receipt of your letters of the 24th and 26th ult. I have written to Mr. Adams for a little more information about his mine, specifically its location. I will endeavor to visit it the last of this month. I visited the "Orion Lead Mine" in the S.W. 1/4 of Sec. 29 T.9.R.1.E.

I was informed that Mr. Adams and others had been receiving under [illegible] advice without any success and had abandoned it. How true it is I do not know.

Very truly yours

Moses Strong

New York [Evangelical?] [illegible] 30 [illegible] [illegible] 1 Oct 1873

My dear Sir

I have found your [hand?] [illegible] and Rudolph [accounting?] and here I [illegible] all that was [illegible] by my [illegible] [illegible] and [illegible] [illegible] justified and I [think?] you [illegible] far [illegible] my [illegible] with so [illegible] valuable information. [illegible] that [is?] [abundant?] I could [illegible]. By observations, [illegible] [illegible] and [illegible] I shall find useful in suggesting and devoting [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] i the states. I thank you and I am

My dear Sir Yours respectfully

John Brown [illegible] [illegible]

D.S. Jordan Oct 4th 1873 (Box 101 Appleton) Ans Oct 8

Oct 4th 1873 Appleton Collegiate Inst. Appleton Wis.

Dr. I.A. Lapham

My dear Sir.—

Is it too late to make application on behalf of the Collegiate Institute for a set of the fossils &c., of this State? If not, I should like to do so and I assure you we could make good use of them as the teaching of the Natural Sciences has now become one of the main purposes of this School.

Possibly you may remember one at Dubuque last year, and later as having [illegible] to you with reference to the State Survey.

I have been with Prof.

Agassiz the past summer until about a month ago when I was elected Principal of the Institute.

Since I came here I have commenced a list of the Animals and plants of this region in company of Mr. B.H. Van Vleck, a young naturalist of this place. I have been giving special attention to the fishes and if any of my conclusions or discoveries would be of interest to you. I should be happy to communicate.

I have alas a collection made several years ago of insects—chiefly Coleoptera & numbering several thousand. They were collected by a late Professor in Lawrence Univ. & have fallen into my hands. It was nearly or entirely made in [Wisconsin?]

Yours very truly

David S. Jordan

E.T. Sweet Ans Oct [13?]

Superior Oct. 6th, 1873 Dr. I.A. Lapham

Dear Sir

I have returned "from the woods" have accomplished, I think, all that you intended me to do, and have had a very pleasant trip. I will leave Duluth for Madison Wednesday morning the express of the trip has been only $250. The stereoscopic view you gave me is the upper fall of Black River. A perpendicular fall of 31 feet, one mile above the Lower Fall which I send you, they are both very [natural?]

Respectfully yours E.T. Street Geol. Corps.