Box 11, Folder 6: Correspondence May to June 1873

[Letter from [L. Thidder?] to Increase Allen Lapham] [illegible] May the 1

[illegible] Dear Sir I heard you [illegible] up here to look for minerals if you do [illegible] want to see him i think [illegible] [illegible] within of A. [Silacs?] mined and i have found stone [bole?] that was dug out by the [baggers?] but how much there is i do not know i [illegible] to poor to do much [illegible] and [illegible] i heard there is not & [Princi?] to the first make that [illegible] A [bole?] mind if so write and have much of [any?] one [illegible] send them to [illegible] Burnside [illegible] quite for [illegible] one for half mild for me to use

[Letter from [L. Thidder?] to Increase Allen Lapham] L. [Thidder?] Arcadia Trempealeau Co. May 1, 73

Thinks he has found Coal & Silver in Trempealeau Co.

Executive Dept. May 9, 1873

Respectfully referred to Dr. I. A. Lapham Chief Geologist Chas J. Martin Private Secy

Rec & answered May 10, 1873 I.A.L.

[Letter from T. C. Chamberlin to Increase Allen Lapham] [Letterhead] State Normal School.

Department of Natural Science.

Whitewater, Wis., May 1^st 1873

Dr. I. A. Lapham Chief Geologist

Dear Sir

I have just rec'd my Commission as Assistant Geologist from Gov. Washburn, which I have accepted.

I await your instructions.

Most Respectfully

T. C. Chamberlin

[text written along right side] I. A. Lapham’s assistant & afterward a State geologist & now 1890 President State University

[Letter from T. C. Chamberlin to Increase Allen Lapham] T. C. Chamberlin

May 1 —

[Letter from N. H. Winchell to Increase Allen Lapham] [Letterhead] Geological and Natural History Survey of Minnesota,

St. Anthony, Minn., 2 May, 1873

Dr. I. A. Lapham

Milwaukee, Wis.

I have just heard of your appointment as Chief Geologist of the new Survey in Wisconsin, & I want to congratulate you on the opportunity you have of developing so rapidly the geology of the state and thus the geology of the Northwest; and also to congratulate the State on the fact that thus the labor of a great many years on the Geology of the State is saved to the State, by making it available in the [prosecution?] of the Survey. It would have been a great mistake to have a man imported, when you, who have been so long on the ground, have so much in your field book unpublished — The State of Michigan voluntarily succeeded in that respect a few years ago, and I speak understandingly.

I venture to hope you will give directions to your assistants to keep the solution of the vexed question of the age of the Red Sandstone — called Potsdam in New York (in my opinion) by a diligent search for fossils in [text along left side] Prof. N. H. Winchell May 2 ^d 1873