Harris, Thaddeus William, 1795-1856

Scope and Content: The Harris collection is divided into three series: Correspondence, Botanical Lectures, and Notebooks.Correspondence consists of about 20 letters to Harris which were bundled by subject, some with notes pertaining to subject -- general botanical, hemp, Lycopsis virginica and Myosotis arvensis, soybeans, squashes and entomology. Subject headings are not in Harris’s handwriting. There are also 6 letters which were found among Harris’s lecture notes and moved to this series....