Dear Jeffie: Being the Letters from Jeffries Wyman, First Director of the Peabody Museum, to His Son, Jeffries Wyman, Jr.

by Jeffries Wyman

Jeffries Wyman (1814-74), a pioneer anthropologist of nineteenth-century America and one of its great comparative anatomists, was the Hersey Professor of Anatomy at Harvard University and, later, a trustee of the Peabody Museum and professor of American Archaeology and Ethnology.

Wyman wrote the 59 letters in this volume to his only son Jeffie. Dating from 1866, when Jeffie was two, until Wyman's death in 1874, when Jeffie was ten, the letters...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0873657969
• ISBN13: 9780873657969
• Release Date: December 2004
• Publisher: Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology,
• Length: 96 Pages
• Age Range: 11 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 6 and higher