The next month or go I will be posting correspondence from Stuart Perry and Harvey Nininger. So some of you are now asking, who is Stuart Perry, According the Smithsonian, "Stuart H. Perry (1874-1957) was a newspaper publisher and authority on meteorites. He made extensive collections of meteorites and donated many specimens to the United States National Museum (USNM). In 1940, Perry became an Honorary Associate in Mineralogy, USNM, a title he held until his death." According to an introduction by Nininger wrote in January 1951,: "Stuart H. Perry, Associate Mineralogist, U.S. National Museum; Author - "Metalography of Meteoric Iron" and numerous papers on meteorites; Donor of a large collection of meteorites; wishes to....." In "Find a Falling Star", Stuart is mentioned three times, but all are very brief. Reading the correspondence Perry was a customer of Nininger, gave a grant for Nininger to use on his research, traded meteorites with him, gave him advice on all things metal and meteoritic and became a good friend of Nininger's in the process. The following letters will also answer some of the questions that those that have read all the Nininger books and newspaper articles might have. Nininger at times comments on his career and in a couple of trades you can see how both Stuart, and Nininger were both good traders.
Mark Bostick
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