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Letter from Rosa D. Hinrichs to Oscar Monnig
No full textLetter from Rosa D. Hinrichs to Oscar Monnig about the Kaufman meteorite properties.Feb. 20, 1957. Dear Mr. Monnig:- Since I felt I had to give a little thought to the idea of halving and parting with half of the meteorite piece of the "White Crust," I am a little late in answering your letter. Yes, you may give permission for the cutting, and presenting the half to the Museum. Afterall, there is fifty lbs. more of it, so that piece can be parted with, without hurting the collection.- However, I do want the other piece book. (over) It is quite possible, of course, that the "white crust" was acquired on this planet, but unless I was given other proof, I would be inclined to rely on the date pertaining to it in my father-in-law's correspondence. If it were really much earlier than the 1892 fall, I don't see how that ever could be proved, unless there is some record of a fall in that part of Texas of an earlier date. Sincerely yours, Rosa D. Hinrich
Letter from Rosa D. Hinrichs to Oscar Monnig
No full textLetter from Rosa D. Hinrichs to Oscar Monnig about the collection of meteorites.Phone- Pr.1-1764 Jan. 9, 1957 Dear Mr. Monnig:- Sorry to be so late in answering letter received from you about five weeks ago.- Actually I put off answering because I was not certain about being in St. Louis at this time. An old friend in Pasadena, Cal. wanted me to come for a visit this winter, and I had planned to go this month, but my plans had to be changed, and I will make the trip later this year. So I will be here after all, and if you wish, you can see me on your return trip from New York. You guess as to not having heard from me during past year was correct, because of my never having found the missing smaller meteorites.- However, the collection as is, amounts to at least three fourths of original with the larger and important stones here. I did find an envelope containing some correspondence between Dr. Gustavus Hinrichs and K.R. Ramsdell concerning the large white crust meteorite, which gives information on the date, hour, and year of its fall, etc. I don't know whether you have seen this before or not, but since it dates from (over) the year 1894, the paper is very brittle, and I cannot send it by mail. I still hesitate about selling collection, because of the missing stones, feeling that original collection should be kept intact.- and I have almost given up hope of recovering the missing small stones. It is doubtful that this will reach you before you leave Texas, but possibly it will be forwarded to you. In case you wish to call me by phone when you return from N.Y., the number is Pr.1-1764. Sincerely, Rosa D. Hinrich
Letter from Rosa D. Hinrichs to Oscar Monnig
No full textLetter from Rosa D. Hinrichs to Oscar Monnig about Carl Hinrichs's meteorite collection.July 19, 1955 Dear Mr. Monnig:- First of all I m ust ask your pardn for this long delay in answering your letter of more than three months ago. In the weeks following my husband's tragic death, I had to use every bit of my strength and will power to hold up and attend to many matters with which I had no one to help me; and I had been through an awful ordeal, having practically lived at the hospital the three weeks that he lived after the brutal assault. I was so anxious to see that everything possible was done to save his life, if possible. If he had died from some hopeless idsease I would have felt partly reconciled to his going, but that he had to give up his life because of three young criminals, was something I just couldn't get over. At the time I received your letter, I was at the point of a nervous breakdown, and it did happen, as a result of sleepless nights and extremely high blood pressure. While under a doctor's care about six weeks, I just had to relax and let go of everthing. And so your letter, along with everything else, had to be postponed for many weeks. I was about to write to you three weeks ago, but held back hoping first to solve the question of "smaller fragments" which you mentioned having seen at the laboratory. I was unaware of my husband having kept any part of the meteorites there, assuming all were here in our home. The lab has been in disuse for several years, and is in an awful mess, as fas as finding anything there is concerned. There is a possiblity that they may be in some container stored on the second floor, which has a mess of accumulated chemical samples, journals, files, etc., etc. Mr. Hinrichs was one of those people who would never dispose of anything, no matter how useless it had become, and it is going to take many days of unpleasant work (everything is covered with dust) for me to go through everything and clean out the place. - My son, who is living in the old Hinrich's home at 4106 Shenandoan with his family, wants to make use of the lab, for a side-line of work he is doing, - not chemical. Of the meteorite collection, the larger & important stones are still in a bookcase on our third floor, but I am also at a loss to know what you mean by the reference to "73 small specimens".- I read over the book Amana Meteorites which my father-in-law, Dr. Gustavus D. Hinrichs wrote, but failed to find such a group listed. However, I shall have to make a search of our third floor, which is in about the same condition as I described the lab. It has never been used for anything but storae purposes, and there are hundreds of books and chemical journals packed in cartons up there, and since none of the cartons are labeled as to contents, it will also take days of work to go through it all. And of course there is apossibility that the fragments or smaller stones you speak of may be stored in one of the many cartons or boxes. At present, and since June 21, we are in the midst of our summer heat, and our third floor (also the lab,) are like bake ovens when the temperature is in the nineties, so I will have to postpone the explorations & work in both places until the worst of the summer heat is over, which probably will be end of Aug. or Sep., and I doubt that I can determine the definite status of the collection until September. It is too bad that you would not have obtained the meteorites years ago, but Mr. Hinrichs was always reluctant to sell the collection.- Frankly, I was never interested in meteorolgy until rather recently, after having read a little on the subject, and I believe with a little study, I would find the whole thing quite fascinating. However, I intend to sell the collection, either to you or someone else. When I have solved the question of just what stones it consists of, I will write to you again, and then perhaps you can come here in latter part of Sep.- From the book "Amana Meteorites" (a copy of which you have) I don't seem to be able to find out just how many stones my fahter-in-law retained for his own collection. He certainly gave away a little fortune in presenting the greater part of the original Amana collection to museums all over Europe. In the mean time, until you hear from me again, I ask your patience, and if by reading Dr. G.D. H's book again, you find anything definite to give me an idea of just what to look for, I would appreciate any help. I am certain of one thing, - that my husband never sold any single or number of the meteorites. I am puzzled by a couple of stones in the bookcase that are not black, but almost white, something like rock crystal; (I am not referring to a white cruse) Are there such meteorites? The Texas stone you mentioned is evidently among those in bookcase. I'll determine that by weighing it.- I'll also have to identify some of the others by weight and the photographs in book, because unfortunately either by time, or careless handling some of the labesl which were posted on have come off. Sorry to subject you to this long hand written letter, but somehow I never learned to type. Sincerely yours, Rosa D. Hinrich
Letter from Rosa D. Hinrichs to Oscar Monnig
No full textLetter from Rosa D. Hinrichs to Oscar Monnig about the Kaufman meteorite.April 15, '43. Dear Mr. Monnig:- It may surprise you to receive this letter from me instead of the ong overdue one from Mr. Hinrichs, but I believe it is the only way you will receive the answer you requested in regard to seeing Mr. Hinrichs in your stopover on your trip to New York. I am writing this for my procrastinating husband, having suggested to him this morning that I do so, to which he readily agreed, (anything to escape writing a letter) for he had shown me your letter of two weeks ago, and although I reminded him several times to answers you, and he no doubt meant to do so, I'm afraid he would postpone it until too late before your trip, which would be very inconsiderate. I feel that I should apologize for Mr. Hinrich's neglect to correspond with you in these past months regarding the meteorite collection, but I might also tell you that there were many reasons for the fact that he just couldn't give the matter any serious thought, or come to any decision concerning it. When you wrote to him previously about your aunt's visit, ets., he was just recovering from a two seeks illness, and was so behind in his laboratory work, going back after dinner every night trying to catch up, that he just couldn't have done what you had suggested then, but of course he should have written you a few lines and explained. Just at present he is again busy trying to "catch up" in the lab., for last week he spent several days and nights at St. Louis University attending a session of Missouri chemists on the study, discussions, ets. of explosives and chemical warfare, which was requested by the U.S. government of the chemists. we have also had a number of disturbing events in our family circle in the past year, suce as a death, a birth (a grandchild) and Mr. Hinrich's elderly sister in the hospital nine months as the result of a broken hip. - I am merely mentioning this, because all of these events have taken up so much of our time and have been partly the reason for not giving any further thought to such things as a meteorite collection, egc. - Even though my husband is much inclined to procrastinate in business as well as personal matters, this past year has been a very disturbing and worrisome one for him, as I believe you will understand. As to the ultimate fate of the meteorites, I frankly can't tell you just what Mr. Hinrichs intends to do about them, for on the rare occasions that he ever discussed the subject with me, he never seemed to have made up his mind as to whether he had decided to sell them or not. - It is my personal opinion that the collection should be in the hands of someone who has both the time and enthusiasm for the study, etc. of the subject, or else in a museum, and my husband has neither the time nor the interest to devote to the subject that his father had. Anyhow, your contemplated stop-over in St. Louis will be a good opportunity for the two of you for a visit, and Mr. Hinrichs says to tell you he will be glad to see you. As it is often difficulty for Mr. H. to leave his laboratory work at a moments notice, I'd suggest it would be best if you could let him know a day or two in advance - if possible - what day and time you will be in St. Louis, so that he can arrange to be here, at home, to see you. If you are staying over night in St. Louis, either coming or going back, we would be very glad to have you as our guest, as we are only two now in our big barn, and have more than one guest room. With kindest regards to you and Mrs. Monnig, sincerely, Rosa D. Hinrichs (Mrs. Carl G.
Marriage record of Fleming, H. M. and Bradham, Rosa D.
No full textMarriage license for H. M. Fleming and Rosa D. Bradham. John C. White was the Notary Public
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