| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 34.2

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Book Review

Dear Brother: Letters of William Clark to Jonathan Clark. Edited and with an introduction by James J. Holmberg. Foreword by James P. Ronda. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2002. xxx + 322 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $35.00).

Sometime in the 1930s a large collection of William Clark's papers, letters, and artifacts was burned as junk in St. Louis. (Stories like this give historians nightmares.) We learn of the fire in the extensive annotation provided by James Holmberg to this collection of Clark's letters to his brother, Jonathan. The letters were discovered in 1988 in the attic of a house in Louisville, Kentucky, which had been owned by Temple Bodley, Jonathan's great-great-grandson. Five of the letters were written during the Lewis and Clark Expedition; one is dated "Fort Mandan, April 1805." Several deal with Clark's problems with his slave, York, and three reveal his immediate reaction to the news of Lewis's death ("I fear O! I fear the waight of his mind has over come him.") The rest tell us much about Clark, his family, and his interests in St. Louis. . . .

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