item details
NameLetters Received
ProductionCaptain Frederick Hutton; creating agency; 1874-1889
Classificationletters, receipts
Materialspaper, ink
Materials SummaryLoose letters in folders
Techniqueshandwriting
Registration NumberCA000372
Overview
Frederick Hutton was Curator at the Otago Museum for most of the period this correspondence relates to. The letters and receipts relate to proposed exchange of specimens with overseas individuals and institutions. Hutton was employed by the Colonial Museum during the early 1870's though the letters date from a later period.