Volume 3

Scope and Contents:

2 page letter from Bayswater, London, England, 31 October 1840. Letter likely written by John Loudon's wife, Jane Wells Loudon (née Webb). Image: sketch 3"x5".

Scope and Contents: The autograph collection was initiated by Asa Gray during visits to Europe, beginning in 1839. Gray received many autographed letters from Adrien de Jussieu, Augustin Pyramus de Candolle, and other prominent botanists. Many letters are from Gray's personal correspondence. In 1890 Isabella James donated her collection of autographs and portraits of early American botanists to the Gray Herbarium. The Gray and James collections were incorporated by Jane Loring Gray and biographical information...