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Helen Lampher O'Gorman (1904–1984) papers

 Collection
Identifier: HIBDARC-0238
Content Description This collection includes:Postcards with prints of O'Gorman's illustrations of flowers, including two addressed from Ella Wallace Turok, an editor in Mexico City who worked on O'Gorman's book Mexican Flowering Trees and Plants, to the botanist Ida Kaplan Langman (1904–1991) in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.A letter dated February 9, 1962 handwritten by O'Gorman and addressed to Langman.A typed list of corrections without a date for ...
Dates: 1953–1962, n.d.
Found in: Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation Archives

William Ralston Pancoast (1900–1993) herbarium

 Collection
Identifier: HIBDARC-0394
Scope and Contents

One (1) "Herbarium and Record of Analysis" folder, created by William Pancoast from 4/19/1917–5/23/1917, consisting of a commercially pre-printed folder with one (1) folded, printed page of directions and keys for use and twenty-seven (28) folded, printed form pages holding herbarium specimens and their analyses, and one printed page of the donor's notes on the Pancoast family.

Dates: 1917
Found in: Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation Archives

Payne, Joseph Frank (1840–1910 and Schreiber) manuscript of speech "On the 'Herbarius' and 'Hortus Sanitatis'" (Payne) and "The Herbals of the XVth and XVIth Centuries"

 Collection
Identifier: HIBDARC-0142
Content Description The first portion of this volume contains the manuscript of a talk given by Harveian librarian Joseph Frank Payne (1840–1910) to the Royal College of Physicians. The purpose of the speech (ca.75 typescript pages), given 21 January 1901, was to “describe the earliest printed books in European literature devoted to the illustration of Natural History; to fix the date and order of the several works known by the names of ‘Herbarius’ and ‘Hortus Sanitatis’; to show their connection with one...
Dates: 21 January 1901
Found in: Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation Archives

Wilson Popenoe (1892–1975) family papers

 Collection
Identifier: HIBDARC-0204
Scope and Contents The Wilson Popenoe papers were given to the Archives of the Hunt Institute in 1976 by his son, Dr. Hugh Popenoe.The first section of the collection, Correspondence, includes not only letters to and from Wilson Popenoe during his lifetime but also other family correspondence. These letters cover nearly 100 years of Popenoe correspondence. The second section consists of Subject Files used by Popenoe for his own reference, which include letters, published and unpublished...
Dates: 1882–1975
Found in: Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation Archives

Pedro Andrés Pourret (1754–1818) letterbook

 Collection
Identifier: HIBDARC-0064
Scope and Contents

This collection contains a letterbook belonging to French botanist Pedro Andrés Pourret (1754–1818). Where addresses appear, the letters were sent to Pourret or written by him in Paris, in Narbonne, and in Brienne, Champagne.

Dates: 1746–1820
Found in: Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation Archives

David Prain (1857–1944) papers

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Identifier: HIBDARC-0031
Scope and Contents

This collection consists mainly of letters Prain received from 1922 to 1924 and miscellaneous related items, some concerning the 1922 death of Isaac Bayley Balfour (1853–1922). Also found here is a copy of a letter (27 February 1922) from Prain to Nathaniel Lord Britton (1859–1934), discussing the nomenclature of various plants. Among the correspondents are Agnes (Balloch) Bayley Balfour (1857–1940), Frederick O. Bower (1855–1948) and Arthur W. Hill (1875–1941).

Dates: 1922–1924
Found in: Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation Archives

Charles Edwin Puddle (1917–2009) letter

 Collection
Identifier: HIBDARC-0184
Content Description

This is a typescript letter (Bodnant Gardens, Colwyn Bay, 20 June 1974, mimeographed?) to members of the Society, explaining Puddle’s reasons for resigning from official duties connected with the group, including his disagreement over various matters with the Society’s president, E. G. Waterhouse (1881–1977).

Dates: 1974
Found in: Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation Archives

William Winfield Ray collection of 20th-century botanists' correspondence and other materials

 Collection
Identifier: HIBDARC-0048
Scope and Contents This collection includes roughly 900 letters, postcards and related items from botanists and their correspondents who were active in the 20th century. The materials themselves range in creation date from the late 19th through the 20th centuries. The collection includes both handwritten and typed letters, almost all of which are signed by their authors. There are few items in the collection that are not accompanying letters (roughly 20), including manuscripts, checks, receipts and other...
Dates: 1873–1970
Found in: Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation Archives

Pierre-Joseph Redouté (1759–1840) papers

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: HIBDARC-0033
Dates: 1787–1848
Found in: Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation Archives

John Lilbern Reveal (1912–1988) papers

 Collection
Identifier: HIBDARC-0274
Scope and Contents

This collection consists of papers, both personal and professional, spanning the life and career of John Lilbern Reveal. Materials include notebooks, correspondence, maps, diaries, reports, and family history documents.

Dates: 1933–1986
Found in: Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation Archives

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