Copy of letter from Jens Yde (Curator in the Natural Museum in Denmark) to Nicholas Guppy thanking him for lending two Wai Wai pamphlets to the museum and expressing dismay that the pamphlets left out Guppy's characterisation of the Wai Wai. In the corner of the letter is a press cutting dated September 1958 from The West India Committee Circular describing Yde's expedition to British Guiana.
Copy of letter from Jens Yde (Curator in the Natural Museum in Denmark) to Nicholas Guppy
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Cheque counterfoil
object | ARC/HMG/CM/007/C/RAVENSCROFTPAULINE/004
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Photograph: Acker Bilk and others at a trade exhibition with a Boosey & Hawkes drumkit
object | ARC/MCG/PH/0152
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Press cutting titled: The Late Mrs. F. J. Horniman
object | ARC/HMG/PR/004/001/173
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Black and white negative of people on inner beach under palm trees, looking out to water
object | ARC/GUP/005/199
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