(W.J. Holland to John A. Poynton, Apr. 3, 1914)

              Pittsburgh,April 3,1914.
My dear Mr.Poynton;
Your letter and the enclosed communication from the gentlemen in Frankfort have beeii received. I seat myv elf after dinner at my type-writer to make reply*finding the subject entertaining and provocative of some little inward   merriment*
Wo man who is as busy as Mr.Carnegie and who is doing so much   along important lines could be expected to remember all the gossip he hears,but I recall years ago having told him the tale of the   Diplodocus at Frankfort. Both he and I were amused at the timef and I have never ceased to be when I think of it. Shortly after Mr. Carnegie had p. esent.ed the replica of the great Diplodocus Carnegiei to the Trustees of the British Museum my friend Dr.Henry F.Osborn of the American Museum in New Yorkfnot to be outdone in good works, conceived the idea that he   too ought to set up a Diplodocus somewhere on the other side. He had some fragments of a small specimen of Diplodocus longus,a somewhat diminutive speciesfwhich had been originally described by Professor Marsh.   He induced Mr.Jacob Schiff, who was born in Frankfort,to put up the moneyfand Mr.Morris K.Jesup, who was the President o:: the Board of Trustees of the American Museum to sanction the enterprise. With the help of the fragments he hadf good as far as they went,and with the knowledge of the subject derived from the publications in part of the Carnegie Museum,and from his own investigations,he contrived to get together what is known as a ITslab-mount   or "wall-mount",showing in relief   one side of the small animal the restoration of which he essayed. I saw the thing before it was shipped abroad,and have  and gt; een it at Frankfort. It is aot an imposing affair,in fact is   execrably mounted,and has never attract*-
ed any attention to speak ofyexcept locally in Frankfort.   Osborn at
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the time .because he had incorporated A the thing a few of the real