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    An Ill-fated Correspondence
    An Ill-fated Correspondence
    An Ill-fated Correspondence
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    An Ill-fated Correspondence

    By Christopher Howard Lincoln

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    A major earthquake in Alaska exposes a rare archeological find not in line with accepted history. In the aftermath, a local research team, assisted by a Princeton professor known for his expertise on North American antiquities, is sent to determine the discovery's authenticity and significance, but soon discovers that some things are best left buried.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherChristopher Howard Lincoln
    Release dateJan 14, 2018
    ISBN9781386091448
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      An Ill-fated Correspondence - Christopher Howard Lincoln

      The following assemblage of documents was found, bound together, among the personal effects of the late Mrs. Ralph McCree. They are believed to have been removed from one or another of the archival collections at Princeton University, an institution for which she worked during the mid 1960’s. Her position as secretary to William Beezer, Assistant Head of Archives for the Morely Collection, a trove of ancient artifacts donated in 1959 to the university-administered Princeton Art Museum by the estate of Sir Richard Morely, put Mrs. McCree in close contact with many of the records, publications, and correspondence housed at the university’s archives. It would not have been difficult for her to pilfer the items during her tenure there.

      Although no evidence definitively points to Mrs. McCree as having done so, her record of employment being completely blemish-free otherwise, it is presumed that she did, indeed, remove the items and concealed the theft by altering the archive records. It is also presumed that she may have been attempting to discover for herself or, perhaps, conceal from others what had become of her husband—something that, at the time of the alleged theft, had not been determined with any degree of surety.

      Mrs. McCree’s husband, Ralph, or Rafe, as his colleagues called him, was employed as an assistant professor at the Princeton Art and Archeology Department from 1958 until his disappearance in 1964. He had been engaged in fieldwork in southern Alaska, purportedly studying a megalithic structure newly exposed by the sudden and dramatic geological shifts caused by the 1964 Great Alaska Earthquake. While his ultimate fate is unknown, the assumption is that the unstable ground swallowed up both him and the site of the archeological find he was investigating during one of the many powerful aftershocks that continued to plague the area in the wake of the initial disastrous quake.

      The clippings and correspondence that were in the possession of Mrs. McCree paint a very different picture and offer up a much more sinister explanation of her husband’s disappearance. They have been assembled here in what seemed to be the most logical order (some items are undated), and the reader is left to draw his or her own conclusions.

      News item, dated March 28, 1964, from the front page of the Daily Star-Examiner, final edition:

      EARTHQUAKE DEVASTATES ALASKA

      HEAVY DAMAGE IN ANCHORAGE, HAVOC ALONG COAST

      A massive earthquake struck Alaska at 5:36 pm on Good Friday, March 27. The quake’s epicenter was in the Prince William

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