All Items 1 Collection 1 Archives & Special Collections 1 Contributor 3 Amherst College 1 Carpenter, C. C., (Charles Carroll), 1836-1918 1 Hitchcock, Edward, 1793-1864 1 Topic 2 Correspondence 1 Natural history collections 1 Part Of 1 Edward and Orra White Hitchcock Papers 1 Genre 1 Correspondence 1 Edward Hitchcock letter to Charles Carroll Carpenter, 1860 May 23 Hitchcock, Edward, 1793-1864 A letter to Charles Carroll Carpenter, a missionary in Labrador, in which Edward Hitchcock thanks him for sending an arctic fox pelt for Amherst College's zoological cabinet. Hitchcock requests that Carpenter send a skeleton of a larger animal if possible, such as a narwhal or walrus, and offers to pay for the cost of sending it. Edward Hitchcock letter to Charles Carroll Carpenter, 1860 May 23
