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Pax, Father George, Williamsville, New York, to Richard Henry Clarke, New York, New York, 1872 June 3

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Identifier: CRCL I-2-n

Scope and Contents

When Pax wrote that he was sending his scrap book away this summer, he was not asking Clarke to return his manuscripts. Pax is thinking of cutting the Moosmuller article from his scrap books and presenting it to Clarke. Pax speaks of variations in the proper names in the Moosmuller translation. He could send also Moosmuller's story about the discovery of Iceland. He will soon send a translation of his uncle's letter about Bishop John Nepomucene Neumann . Pax speaks of additional photographs about the "Tholus of Newport". Father Oswald Moosmuller, O.S.B. had only those pictures for "American Antiquities" at his disposal. Clarke might perhaps find 1 or 2 more of church ruins in Greenland in "Antiquitatis Americana". Clarke can find runic writing in many books but no one in America understands runic writing. All this is in Pax's manuscripts. He speaks of another article by a German priests on Indian writing similar to runic. He sends the lectures of the French priest Brasseur. It would do better at the end of a Mormon book. Protestants as well as Catholics will be astonished by Clarke's suggested work published in a way accessible to all. Pax is sure after all of Clarke's investigations he will confine himself to Moosmuller alone. He speaks of other strange findings on America. :: I-2-n A.L.S. 2pp. 4to.

Dates

  • Creation: 1872 June 3

Language of Materials

English.

Repository Details

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