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Anonymous "Soyle for an Orchard" manuscript
Collection
Identifier: HIBDARC-0223
Content Description
This collection contains a single untitled manuscript by an unknown author. Little is known about its origins or purpose, as it was unpublished until the 1950s when Rachel McMasters Miller Hunt acquired it from Ellen Willmott and had it published, alongside the volume in HI Archives collection 222, in a limited private print run by the Yale University Press.The manuscript is split into two sections of numbered pages, the first being "Soyle for an Orchard" (32 pages) and the...
Dates:
ca.1651
Agnes Robertson Arber (1879–1960) papers
Collection
Identifier: HIBDARC-0053
Scope and Contents
This collection holds mostly material collected by Agnes Arber's daughter, Muriel Arber (1913–2004). It includes 31 of Agnes Arber's notebooks about herbals and plant morphology; atavism and the "law of loss," which she independently formulated from botanical evidence; the botany of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832) and Guy de la Brosse (1586–1641); her first herbarium; drawings of plants; "botanical records and cuttings", which includes a letter from her friend...
Dates:
1886–1985
William Andrew Archer (1894–1973) papers
Collection
Identifier: HIBDARC-0003
Scope and Contents
The William Andrew Archer papers (ca.1906–[1929–1964]–1972), HI Archives collection no. 3, consists of seventeen boxes of materials and four bound volumes. The majority of the collection includes reports, printed and mimeographed items, certificates and correspondence. Archer's publications and the published materials of fellow botanists, such as a listing of botanical paintings and drawings by Helen Joslin, are also available throughout the collection.Much of the collection...
Dates:
1929–1964
Liberty Hyde Bailey (1858–1954) manuscript fragment
Collection
Identifier: HIBDARC-0004
Scope and Contents Note
This collection contains four handwritten noncontiguous pages (including a title page) of the manuscript of Bailey's The Garden of Bellflowers in North America, with Decorations (New York, MacMillan, 1953).
Dates:
before 1953
Peter René Oscar Bally (1895–1980) correspondence with Gilbert W. Reynolds (1895–1967), 1950–1967
Collection
Identifier: HIBDARC-0005
Scope and Contents
This collection includes letters between Peter René Oscar Bally and Gilbert W. Reynolds (1895–1967), an optician in Johannesburg, and later of Swaziland. Reynolds was a collector of and authority on the genus Aloe Linnaeus. The correspondence concerns Reynolds’ Aloes of South Africa (1950), as well as the travel and collecting of Aloe specimens done by both men, including Reynolds’ work for ...
Dates:
1950–1967
William Jackson Bean (1863–1947) correspondence
Collection
Identifier: HIBDARC-0067
Scope and Contents
The three letters in this collection were written by Bean to British ornithologist Heatley Noble (1862–1922) and mainly concern the genus Magnolia Linnaeus, which Bean was determining for him. The species mentioned are Magnolia conspicua (Magnolia denudata Desroussaux), Magnolia lennei (Magnolia hybrid), ...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1920
Michael Schuck Bebb (1833–1895) papers
Collection
Identifier: HIBDARC-0059
Scope and Contents
There are 12 handwritten pages of drawings and notes concerning willows and, according to a notation by Carleton R. Ball, the manuscript of an account published, with descriptions of new species, in part in Charles F. Wheeler and Erwin F. Smith’s Catalogue of the Phaenogamous and Vascular Cryptogamous Plants of Michigan… (Lansing, W. S. George, 1881; HI call no. DS70 MI W562C). Also found here are three letters from Bebb in Rockford, Illinois, to Townshend S. Brandegee (13 February 1878) and...
Dates:
1878–1887, n.d.
Rudolph Beer (1873–1940) papers
Collection
Identifier: HIBDARC-0006
Scope and Contents Note
This collection was received from William T. Stearn on May 1962. It consists of nine file folders. The first eight folders each contain one article reprint and the original handwritten manuscript of the article. File folder 9 contains the handwritten manuscript for the article without the reprint.
Dates:
1905–1913
Charles Edwin Bessey (1845–1915) papers
Collection
Identifier: HIBDARC-0036
Scope and Contents
This collection consists mainly of Charles Edwin Bessey’s handwritten notes and drafts, including a “list of flowers analyzed” (1867, 22 pp.), a freshman botany lecture (1878, 16 pp.); notes on the importance of enthusiasm in teaching botany (1914, 4 pages); and notes to his friend and renowned botanist Asa Gray (2 pp.). In addition the collection includes papers on the topics “the Phyla, Classes, and Orders of Plants” (12 pp.); “Robert W. Furman’s Work on Forestry” (9 pp.); and Filices,...
Dates:
1867–1914, n.d.