Letter to Leo Geler about E. Mott Davis's life
Title
Letter to Leo Geler about E. Mott Davis's life
Subject
E. Mott Davis
Description
a letter to Leo Geler from E. Mott Davis about his life
Source
UNL Archives
Date
4/10/12
Contributor
Dustin Vnuk
Rights
UNL Archives
Original Format
Printed Letter
Text
Dear Leo:
Herewith the thrilling details of my life, as requested today:
E. (for Edward) Mott Davis,born Shirly, Mass., Nov. 24, 1918. Grew up on a Mass apple farm; ran it for a number of years.lso lived in Fla when a stripling ; graduated from Winter Park, Fla., High School, 1935. B.S. Harvard, 1940; M.A. Harvard, 1942;both in anthropology. Expect to get Ph.D. in Anthro at Harvard within the coming year. No military service. Field of study: prehistory of the America, Fla., Mass., Wyo., and most of all in Nebraska. Specialty is the study of the earliest human occupations of the Plains area. Been living and working in Nebraska since 1948; came here from Mass. Sorry I can't provide anything more sensational than that, like having hacked my way through the jungles of the Orinoco in search of a lost City of Gold, or having spent a year in the Artic swapping wives with the Eskimo; but my life has been prosaic, humdrum, and everyday, unpunctuated with anything more exciting than the routine appendectomy & tonsillectomy. You wanted me to whip up a list of 13 programs on the Indians, ancient and more recent, of Nebraska. I'll have this in your hands by Friday at the latest. If you want it sooner, screan and I'll produce.
E. Mott Davis
Herewith the thrilling details of my life, as requested today:
E. (for Edward) Mott Davis,born Shirly, Mass., Nov. 24, 1918. Grew up on a Mass apple farm; ran it for a number of years.lso lived in Fla when a stripling ; graduated from Winter Park, Fla., High School, 1935. B.S. Harvard, 1940; M.A. Harvard, 1942;both in anthropology. Expect to get Ph.D. in Anthro at Harvard within the coming year. No military service. Field of study: prehistory of the America, Fla., Mass., Wyo., and most of all in Nebraska. Specialty is the study of the earliest human occupations of the Plains area. Been living and working in Nebraska since 1948; came here from Mass. Sorry I can't provide anything more sensational than that, like having hacked my way through the jungles of the Orinoco in search of a lost City of Gold, or having spent a year in the Artic swapping wives with the Eskimo; but my life has been prosaic, humdrum, and everyday, unpunctuated with anything more exciting than the routine appendectomy & tonsillectomy. You wanted me to whip up a list of 13 programs on the Indians, ancient and more recent, of Nebraska. I'll have this in your hands by Friday at the latest. If you want it sooner, screan and I'll produce.
E. Mott Davis
