One letter (n.d.) from Daniel Garrison Brinton (1837-1899) to "P." The letter was tipped into a copy of Brinton's Rig Veda Americanus. When the worn 1890 editio

Chiefly letters from Brinton to his parents during the Civil War years of 1863 and 1864. Brinton's letters give the reader descriptions about troop movements be

"Rare archival illustrations show contemporary (1870-1900) photographs of the University of Pennsylvania Museum library and portraits of individual authors repr