The History of Melanesian Society. (Percy Sladen Trust Expedition to Melanesia)

£500 · Offered by Maggs Bros Ltd

Two further obituary notices are laid in and in the second volume in its original envelope addressed to John W. Layard (author of Stone Men of Malekula) is a two page autograph letter, signed, from Rivers. The envelope is inscribed by Layard - “Rivers’s last letter to me” - the postmark being 21 March 1922. Rivers died on the 4th of June 1922 and the St. John’s College, Cambridge funeral memorial is tipped in.

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