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Document 1460

EMIL HOLUB. ALS: "Dr Emil Holub" in German, 3p, 5x7½. Hoboken, 1895 March 18. This letter refers to Washington and the Brooklyn Club, but it is not translated. Born in Bohemia, Dr. Emil Holub (1847-1902) went to the Kimberley diamond fields in Africa in 1872. With the money earned by his practice as a surgeon, he undertook expeditions into the northern Transvaal, Mashonaland and through Bechuanaland to the Victoria Falls, making extensive natural history collections. In 1879, Dr. Holub distributed these collections among over a hundred museums and schools in Europe. In 1883, he went back to South Africa with his wife, intending to cross the continent to Egypt. In June 1886, the party crossed the Zambezi west of the Victoria Falls and explored the then almost unknown region between that river and its tributary, the Kafue. Dr. Holub returned to Austria in 1887 with a collection of over 13,000 objects of great scientific interest, now in various museums. Lightly creased and soiled. Folds, not at signature.

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