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May Margaret Blaine (1889–1973) correspondence

 Collection
Identifier: HIBDARC-0061
Scope and Contents This collection consists mainly of personal letters to Blaine and some copies of her replies, discussing the correspondents' work, travel and families and the dolls they purchased for her throughout the world. Correspondents include William Andrew Archer (1894–1973), Harley H. Bartlett (1886–1960), Alan Beetle (1913–2003), Heber Loran Blood (1900–1948), Nina Floy Bracelin (also Mrs. H. P. Bracelin, 1890–1973), Thakur Rup Chand (1902–1994), Winifred Chapin, Carl O. Erlanson (1901–1975), David...
Dates: 1929–1964
Found in: Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation Archives

Maybelle Blos (1906–1991) time book

 Collection
Identifier: HIBDARC-0186
Content Description This collection holds the contents of one notebook, with lists of Maybelle Blos' drawings of South American Cactaceae, done for Paul Clifford Huchison (1924–1997) and Myron Kimnach(1992–2018). Some notes are written by Blos herself, while others are records kept by her employer. There is also a letter written by Leonard Machlis (1915–1976), chairman of the University of California, Berkely botany department, to Thomas Harper Goodsped regarding research...
Dates: 1956–1965
Found in: Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation Archives

Wilfrid Jasper Walter Blunt (1901–1987) correspondence

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: HIBDARC-0392
Content Description The collection includes:Letters and postcards exchanged between Blunt and George H.M. Lawrence (1910–1978), Rachel Hunt (1882–1963), John Brindle (1911–1991), J.S.L. Gilmour (1906–1986), J.S. Maas (1928–1997), Katherine MacLean (?), Leonard Duke (1890–1971), Ian Rogerson (?), Edward "Teddy" Croft-Murray (1907–1980), Henry R. Broughton (1900–1973), John C. Warner (1897–1989), Richard Louis Ormond (1939– ), Jean Chirichigno (?), H. Guyford Stever (1916–2010), Phyllis M....
Dates: 1959–1987, n.d.
Found in: Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation Archives

Francis Boott (1792–1863) notebooks

 Collection
Identifier: HIBDARC-0094
Scope and Contents

This collection includes three volumes of journals and notes. The first two volumes cover travel and specimen notes and inventories. The third volume is lecture notes, many of which may have been written by individuals other than Boott, namely the Harvard University botanist and medical doctor Jacob Bigelow (1787–1879).

Dates: 1814–1819
Found in: Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation Archives

Botanical Society of America records

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: HIBDARC-0007
Dates: 1933–1941
Found in: Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation Archives

Botany Prize Examination, University of Aberdeen (1883) paper

 Collection
Identifier: HIBDARC-0307
Content Description

The collection is a one-page document titled "First Prize Examination" for the Botany class at the University of Aberdeen in Scotland, listing six questions related to botany.

Dates: 1883
Found in: Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation Archives

E. Lucy Braun (1889–1971) field notebooks and other materials

 Collection
Identifier: HIBDARC-0181
Scope and Contents Note The field notebooks in this collection are a record of the work Braun did that ultimately led to her publication of Deciduous Forests of Eastern North America. They are divided into two sets: her "Deciduous Forest Notebooks," which cover her explorations throughout the region, and her "Kentucky Notebooks." The field notebooks are full of details regarding dates and locations of Braun's excursions, the routes she took, the plants she...
Dates: 1919–1955
Found in: Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation Archives

Edward Sandford Burgess (1855–1928) papers

 Collection
Identifier: HIBDARC-0039
Scope and Contents

This collection consists of a notebook, labeled as "Vol. II", containing handwritten notes for lectures on botany. There are also newspaper clippings and articles concerning various plants.

Dates: 1889–1895, n.d.
Found in: Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation Archives

Edward Angus Burt (1859–1939) manuscript

 Collection
Identifier: HIBDARC-0068
Scope and Contents

This collection contains the first and second drafts, mainly handwritten by Burt, of a manuscript written as a cryptogamic section for the seventh edition of Asa Gray’s New Manual of Botany (New York, American Book Company, 1908; Hi call no. DS20 G778M 908), but never published. It was eliminated from the edition at the last minute due to size and scope constraints.

Dates: ca.1903
Found in: Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation Archives

Margery Claire Carlson (1892–1985) correspondence

 Collection
Identifier: HIBDARC-0086
Scope and Contents This collection consists of correspondence with three individuals. Handwritten correspondence from Thomas Baillie MacDougall (1895–1973) to Carlson and her life partner, Kate Staley, is dated 1949 to 1967. Most of these letters are one to two pages in length and were sent from New York, New York, or Tehuantepec, Oaxaca, Mexico. This set of letters includes 34 letters and five postcards, sometimes signed “D. Tomás,” and one 3" × 5" printed paper advertising the Hotel Tehuantepec (Mexico). The...
Dates: 1949–1973
Found in: Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation Archives

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