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Sept 26, 1934 Mr Morgan H Seacord 179 Main St. New Rochelle New York Dear Seacord:- Indeed I remember our adventures in them air prehistoric days when you and I was young, McGee! Since then the newspapers have conferred upon me the high-falutin titles of Doctor and Professor, but I assure you, no one else has done so. So please, when addressing me, omit the profs and the docs. The Bronxville site? Well I remember that, also. I found it, not because of any tradition, or report of finding anything, but because I figured that if I were a prehistoric Injun, that particular spot would seem like a pretty good camping place to me. One time I found the field plowed, and then I discovered that the old timers had felt that way too. I remember no traces of a palisade, nor have I heard of any. From my memory of the finds, I should say that the place was occupied in rather early Algonkian days, not in the last Algonkian period- although I may be wrong in this. The workmanship was good. The specimens I collected there went into my private collection, which was sold to the American Museum of Natural History. you could probably find them, first in the catalogue, then in the collections. If you could assemble a series of points from the site and photograph them, and send the picture to Director Arthur G Parker, Rochester Museum, Edgerton Park, Rochester, N.Y. he could probably tell you which Algonkian period was represented, or which periods if there is more than one. When I was in the work we recognized only two such periods, the Archaic and the Recent, the latter in its final phase showing Iroquois influence; but I think Arthur has been able to refine the thing still farther. We are living in an old Spanish ranch-house near Los Angeles; I am married to Arthur Parker's sister, Endeka, the wife you knew having passed on. My son is nearly grown, in his senior year of high-school. He is in doubt whether he wants to be an archeologist or a writer- he has talents in both directions. he and I have just returned from an expedition to east-central Nevada where we found a cave with bones of extinct horse and came associated with human traces, but nothing very definite. We did find some early camp-sites on the headlands of a long dry Pleistocene lake which yielded some heavily weathered points and scrapers. I got quite a kick out of finding these- almost as much as the day I found two grooved axes on Davenport's Neck- for which you never quite forgave me! Well, I must sign off. Let me hear from you a little oftener. Twenty-five or thirty years apart is too long for letters! With every good wish Your old friend M.R. Harrington, Curator.
