Letter from J.M.F (?) to Increase Allen Lapham, January 1st

Chicago, Jan. 1. 1873.
1029 Mich. av.

Ansd. Jan 13 -

My dear Dr. Lapham:

I have accepted condition-
ally, i.e. if weather & health concur,
an invitation to address your acad-
emy on the 11th of February next, on
the subject of our Antiquities, par-
ticularly in reference to Ethnology.

I hope to meet you on that occasion
and visit your place & also Bur-
lington. I let the good weather of the
fall slip by, for I was engaged in
a train of thought which I disliked to
break off, then came the horse disease,
then the Arctic breezes &c.

I sent you my paper on skulls. The
full report will contain many more
drawings. I don't believe that Preston's
generalizations as to the unity of the
ancient population of this hemisphere
will stand. Your skulls disprove it.

Very truly,

J. W. F.

Dr. Lapham
Milwaukee