Overview Letters concerning the proposed publication of The North American Indians in the Middle of the Nineteenth Century, fast passing to extinction and leaving no monuments of their own behind them by 19th century author and illustrator of the American West, George Catlin. The bulk of the collection (items 2-6) are letters from Henry Steele of Jersey City to Ezra Cornell (1807-1874) of Ithaca, New York, the founder of Cornell University (1868), soliciting his...