Scope and Contents: The collection consists of Gray Herbarium correspondence from the 1890s to present day but the bulk of the letters are from 1890-1955. Also includes Harvard University Herbaria correspondence. Most of the letters are addressed to staff members and were transferred to the archives from office files. Some letters were gifts to the Gray Herbarium or Harvard University Herbaria that were interfiled into the collection. The letters are from amateur and professional botanists,...

Scope and Contents: This collection, approximately 1820-1904, includes the personal correspondence of Asa Gray and Sereno Watson, official correspondence of other Herbarium staff, and a small amount of correspondence of noted botanists who were not affiliated with Harvard. Gray correspondence contains letters from several of the most distinguished European and American scientists of the 19th century, including George Bentham, Charles Darwin, Joseph Henry, Joseph Dalton Hooker, William Jackson...

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Records and some published material documenting the history of the Gray Herbarium at Harvard University from circa 1805-2010. Records include some herbaria correspondence; budget, finance, and donation reports and receipts; building and equipment expenses; staff and library records; staff expedition expenses; visiting committee records; general history information; Harvard Botanical Club notes; publications; and plant records including accession records and exchanges.

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Scrapbooks contain specimen labels for herbarium sheets issued in fifteen sets as Plantae Exsiccatae Grayanae from October 1902 until June 1952. Inside cover of first scrapbook notes the dates each set was issued. The labels are dated from June 1901-July 1945. Also includes a letter from 1946.