“I venture to write to you, hoping that you may be interested to say any good word that you can to further my cause.”

January of 1898 started the correspondence between James Henry Breasted at the University of Chicago, and the woman who would become his star student and the first woman Egyptology PhD in the United States: Caroline Ransom.

James Henry Breasted on a train platform, Chicago, IL
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