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Eric P. Newman correspondence with William H. Sheldon, 1949, American Numismatic Society, Archives.
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Eric P. Newman (1911-2017) was an American numismatist and served on the governing Council of the American Numismatic Society. He led the effort to recover the early U.S. cents stolen by William Sheldon.
William Herbert Sheldon, Jr., (1898-1977) was an American psychologist known for developing a new somatotype classification. He was a numismatist specializing in U.S. cents and, after his death, was accused by the American Numismatic Society of substituting lower-grade coins from his own collection with higher-grade examples from the ANS.
Photocopies of five letters between Eric P. Newman and William H. Sheldon. A letter from Newman to Sheldon, dated February 4, 1949, thanking Sheldon for his visit; a letter from Sheldon to Newman, dated February 9, 1949, about the preparation of Sheldon’s book “Early American Cents” and promising to provide an inventory of Hine’s colonial collection; a letter from Newman to Sheldon, dated July 29, 1949, congratulating Sheldon on the publication of his book; a letter from Sheldon to Newman, dated August 22, 1949, thanking Newman for sending a monograph about Fugio cents and inviting him to inspect the Hines Collection; a letter from Newman to Sheldon, dated October 6, 1949, about research on colonial coinage.