Harvard’s president rebuffed Lanier with polite evasion rather than acknowledgment

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Thank you for writing and sharing your story with me. Subsequent to receiving your email I was glad to learn that you have also been in touch with Ilisa Barbash and Pamela Gerardi at the Peabody Museum and that you have had an opportunity to view the daguerreotypes you mentioned in your email. I understand that the Peabody Museum is involved in projects regarding those daguerreotypes and that Ms. Barbash and Ms. Gerardi have agreed to be in touch with you if they discover any new relevant information. I hope you will also do the same. As a historian, I recognize the significance of this study, and I very much appreciate your offer to be of assistance. — Tamara Lanier, From These Roots, 296