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Isaac F. Holton and John Torrey Correspondence, 1840-1870
Author: Isaac Farwell HoltonIsaac F. Holton and John Torrey Correspondence
Author: Isaac Farwell HoltonPublisher:
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Category : Botanical specimens
Languages : en
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Correspondence from Isaac F. Holton to John Torrey, dated 1840-1870. In his early letters, the young preacher Holton writes from his first teaching post in Illinois, where he complains of a lack of mental stimulation ("I see absolutely nothing of a scientific nature except at Dr. Mead's ... The last prairie flower is dead & I have not till now seen a Botanical work this year"), not to mention his own books and clothes, held up for months in shipping. Throughout the 1840s Holton leads an almost itinerant existence, cobbling together a meagre living from preaching and lecturing on scientific subjects; he reflects often on his uncertain future ("Am I to circulate in an eddy all my life? I hope not.") and asks Torrey for advice. By the latter half of the decade he has moved to New York and found work teaching in girls' and boys' schools and later, at the New York College of Pharmacy. After some years in New York and Princeton, New Jersey, Holton finds his way to New England, and finally again to Illinois, and a late marriage. Surprisingly little mention is made of his journey to South America and the book which came out of that trip, "New Granada: twenty months in the Andes" (1857). The collection also includes letters from Holton to Asa Gray, Samuel Barnum Mead, Charles Wilkins Short, Oliver Rivington Willis, Peter Vincent Le Roy, and Seth Hastings Grant. Obsolete plant names mentioned include Annona triloba, Canchalagua, and Nelumbium. The final letter makes use of the phrase "metric florin" and includes an unidentified annotated newspaper clipping pertaining to systems of currency.
Isaac Colby and John Torrey Correspondence, 1840
Author: John A. Brereton and John Torrey Correspondence, 1834
Author: John Torrey and Amos Eaton Correspondence
Author: John TorreyPublisher:
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Category : Botanical specimens
Languages : en
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Correspondence from John Torrey to Amos Eaton, dated 1818, discussing the distribution of Eaton's books to booksellers; the difficulty of identifying a shipment of specimens Eaton recently sent ("You send me such poor specimens of your plants that if I did not know them well I should have never been able to determine them"); work on Eaton's Manual; and other botanical matters, as well as Torrey's recent graduation from medical school: "I have now got my sheepskin & have full powers granted me to kill & destroy in any part of the earth-- I expect soon to open an office in the City." The second document is titled "Remarks on Eaton's translations of Acharius," with notes on a number of lichen genera; it is undated, and may have originally been enclosed with the letter. Unresolved plant names mentioned include Smyrnium aureum.
H.H. Eaton and John Torrey Correspondence, 1831
Author: John Torrey and Benjamin Silliman, Jr. Correspondence
Author: John TorreyPublisher:
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Correspondence from John Torrey and Benjamin Silliman, Jr., dated 1862: a letter of introduction for "my friend & former pupil," A.M. Edwards.
John Torrey and Abraham Halsey Correspondence
Author: John TorreyPublisher:
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Category : Botanical illustration
Languages : en
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Correspondence from John Torrey to Abraham Halsey, dated 1834, discussing the illustrations Halsey has recently completed for Asa Gray; the genus Salix; and assorted news of friends and colleagues.
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