Wed, September 1, 2010 5:00:50 PMRe: Amelia Earhart Collection
From: Archives Staff <spcoll@purdue.edu>View Contact
To: MICHAEL PINER <mikejeanpiner@bellsouth.net>
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Dear Mr. Piner,
I have checked the finding aid for the Earhart collection, the collection files,
and spoken with the Women's collection archivist and could not locate any
reference to parts of Earhart's airplane being transferred to Purdue.
I am sorry that we were unable to fulfill your information request.
Sincerely,
Elizabeth Wilkinson
Processing and Public Services Archivist
Karnes Archives & Special Collections Research Center
Quoting MICHAEL PINER <mikejeanpiner@bellsouth.net>:
> Sir
> Below is a request to Prof. Morris. His staff answered, informing me that he
>
> has moved to Fla St. If you could refer my E-mail to the proper person in
> charge of the Amelia Earhart Collection, I would greatly appreciat it.
>
> Professor Morris:
> I am a member of The International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery,
> TIGHAR,
> see
http://www.tighar.org.
> I have been looking at all the items on The Purdue Amelia Earhart collection,
>
> which is an excellent collection , and honors the memory of Amelia quite
> well.
> I believe I have found that you are an administrator of that collecton. If
> this
> is true, I would like your help. Item#1115 of the collection is a letter
> sent
> by Mr Putnam to Amelia expressing his love for her, and says to her that "We
> should save some of the parts from the Luke Field crash" , "might be useful
> for
> the book", "send to Purdue" We are wondering if any "parts" were sent, and
> if
> so, can a search be made to ocate them at Purdue.
>
> Anything you can help in this matter, might be useful. For example,
> anything
> sent to Purdue from the Lockeed plant at Alameda California might be very
> helpful to find answers as to whether AE landed on Gardner Island July 2,
> 1937.
>
> Thank you, Michael Piner, #2777
Purdue University Libraries, Archives and Special Collections
This is the result of finding who is in charge of the collection, A Prof Morris. You can see that he has movet and the staff did a cursory search, not a physical search. Mike Piner