TARL’s staff is working hard to digitize many of our old records, including the many hundreds of pages of professional and personal correspondence from some of the greatest minds in the history of Texas archeology.
Dr. E. Mott Davis was a professor in the UT Anthropology Department from 1956 into the 1990s, and was a well-known face in the Texas Archeological Society. He was a major figure in Plains archeology and is fondly remembered by many of his students.
We thought we’d share the following delightful exchange between Dr. E. Mott Davis and Dr. Alfred E. Dittert, Jr., of New Mexico State University.
Dr. Dittert’s message to Dr. Davis:
And Dr. Davis’ reply:
More entirely serious messages from Mott can be found at the Nebraska University Library’s website.
I graded for Mott Davis for a couple of semesters. He was a delightful man with a dry New England wit.