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TitleLetter, Edward James Wayland, the Geological Survey of Uganda, P.O. Box 9, Entebbe, to Percy George Hamnall Boswell
Date13 November 1935
DescriptionThanking Boswell for his letter and a copy of O'Brien's. O'Brien has written in an attempt to justify his past actions, but Wayland will not answer. He is sorry for Leakey, but he brought it on himself. Solomon is apt to jump to conclusions but Wayland has urged him to go to Kaiso. Boswell's footnote stated that Wayland had invited O'Brien to Uganda: he did not, but offered him strong encouragement. He gives an account of Warren Hastings, Mrs. Hastings and O'Brien expressing interest in archaeological work from 1932 and Wayland encouraged it, having tried for some years to get an archaeologist to come out. The party went to the Nsongezi area but were not impressed, although it is an archaeological paradise. He thinks they then went to an archaeological expedition to Palestine, from which time Mr. Hastings faded out of the picture. O'Brien and Mrs. Hastings took a course in Cambridge. Wayland was delighted that there would be trained archaeologists in Uganda and suggested that O'Brien might write Volume 2 (Archaeology) of his projected Memoir on the Pleistocene. O'Brien was not keen and the thing is a tragedy. He can work with Solomon, but not O'Brien, partly because of his insufferable conceit. He is pleased that Boswell has seen O'Brien's reports and he will comment upon them if Boswell wishes.
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FormatTypescript
PhysicalDescriptionOn paper
AccessStatusOpen
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