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Emily Walcott Emmart Trueblood (1898–1984) papers
Collection
Identifier: HIBDARC-0102
Scope and Contents
This collection contains:1. Parchment certificate (Washington, 12 December 1953), handwritten and illustrated, stating that Corresponding Membership was conferred upon Emily Walcott Emmart by the Academic Council of the Academy of American Franciscan History “in recognition of her significant contribution to the study of American Franciscan History”2. Typescript letter signed (carbon copy, 29 January 1953) from Mrs. Charles Kingsley Trueblood to Mrs. Winthrop H. Battles,...
Dates:
1953-1974, n.d.
Twentieth Century Botanists correspondence and other materials
Collection
Identifier: HIBDARC-0048
Dates:
1873–1970
Ignatius Urban (1848–1931) papers
Collection
Identifier: HIBDARC-0049
Scope and Contents
This collection includes one pocket notebook (17 × 11cm) entitled "Itinera et vitae collectorum in Martii Flora Brasiliensis..." of 120 numbered pages with one additional page and one file folder of various sized pages of detailed notes to accompany the notebook. All is handwritten in German.
Dates:
ca.1882–1919, n.d.
Velva Elaine Rudd (1910–1999) papers
Collection
Identifier: HIBDARC-0146
Content Description
This collection covers Velva Elaine Rudd's correspondence to and with a number of individuals. There are also letters between the botanist and director of the National Museum of Natural History and Arnold Arboretum, Albert Charles Smith (1906–1999), and various correspondents. Also included are lists of plants and determinations of collections identified by Rudd and other botanists in Mexico, Venezuela, Honduras, and the southwestern and southeastern United States.Correspondents...
Dates:
1933–1979
Egbert Hamilton Walker (1899–1991) correspondence
Collection
Identifier: HIBDARC-0050
Dates:
1958–1976
Frederick Andrews Walpole (1861–1904) diaries
Collection
Identifier: HIBDARC-0095
Scope and Contents
This collection contains three of Walpole's diaries. The first (March–April 1882) concerns Walpole's train trip from Illinois to California; a walk of 177 miles from Redding, California, to Jacksonville, California; his search for land in southern Oregon, culminating in the purchase of property near Medford; accounts (1883–1885) relating to supplies, farm wages, board and other expenses for this period; and plans for a house. The second diary (January 1900–December 1901) includes accounts...
Dates:
1882–1903
Marjorie Fleming Warner (ca.1871-1960) papers
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: HIBDARC-122
Content Description
This collection consists of a published copy of A Treatise on Gardening: By a Citizen of Virginia, John Randolph, Jr., (1727–1784) (Richmond: Appeals Press for the William Parks Club, 1924) with several loose author's notes as well as published articles, almost all written or co-written by Warner, with handwritten notes by the author.
Dates:
1920–1959
Wight, William Franklin (1874–1954) manuscript
Collection
Identifier: HIBDARC-0149
Content Description
This collection contains Wight's unfinished handwritten manuscript of a flora of Alaska, which was never published.
Dates:
n.d.
Louis Otho Williams (1908–1991) papers
Collection
Identifier: HIBDARC-097
Content Description
This collection consists of Williams’s correspondence (1936–1954], ca.150 pieces) at the United Fruit Company’s Escuela Agrícola Panamericana at Zamorano near Tegucigalpa, Honduras, with Elmer Drew Merrill (1876–1956) at the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University. These letters concern the following topics:Honduran specimens Williams sent Merrill as part of an exchange with the Arboretum.Development of the herbarium and scientific program at the Escuela, with references...
Dates:
1936–1973
Truman George Yuncker (1891–1964) papers
Collection
Identifier: HIBDARC-0051
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of letters to Yuncker, many requesting determination of Cuscuta and exchange of specimens. Some letters concern his work on the genus for the North American Flora (New York, New York Botanical Garden, 1921); publication of his dissertation, Revision of the North American and West Indian Species of Cuscuta (Urbana, Illinois, University of Illinois, 1921, Illinois Biological Monographs...
Dates:
1833–1953