Samuel J. Parker was the son of the Reverend Samuel Parker, a Presbyterian missionary who traveled extensively in the Oregon Country. Like his father Samuel J. Parker also traveled extensively, including stints in South America and the west coast of North America. Parker was an avid reader and scholar of Native American studies. As a result, he penned these three letters to James G. Swan on the Olympic Peninsula of Washington State. Swan was one of the author of several books, including contributions to the Smithsonian Institution's series of studies in ethnology.
This collection includes three hand-written letters, and typed transcriptions of the letters.
Arranged in a single series, chronologically, in a single box accompanied by typed transcriptions.
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The Swan/Parker Correspondence OLPb022PAR, Lewis & Clark College Aubrey Watzek Library Archives & Special Collections, Portland, Oregon.
Purchased by Lewis & Clark College Special Collections.
Processed in February 2008.
The content of these letters directly correlates with James Swan's
book:
The bulk of Samuel J. Parker's papers are held at Cornell University: http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/EAD/htmldocs/RMM02521.html
James Swan's papers can be found at the University of Washington: http://nwda-db.wsulibs.wsu.edu/findaid/ark:/80444/xv77646
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