mums065 Thurber-Woolson Botanical Collection, 1803-1918 Finding Aid Finding aid prepared by Linda Seidman. Encoding funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Special Collections and University Archives, W.E.B. Du Bois Library, University of Massachusetts Amherst

Amherst, MA

2003

Finding aid encoded using Perl scripts and edited in XMetal 2.0. Encoded by Eric Cartier. 2003-07-28 Finding aid written in English. 2005-09-23 mu191 converted from EAD 1.0 to 2002 by v1to02-5c.xsl (sy2003-10-15). Special Collections and University Archives, W.E.B. Du Bois Library, University of Massachusetts Amherst Thurber-Woolson Botanical Collection, 1803-1918 Finding Aid Manuscript Number 65 Compiled by Linda Seidman Encoding funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Collection Overview Thurber, George, and Woolson, George Clark, compilers Thurber-Woolson Botanical Collection1803-1918 MS 65 4 boxes (2.5 linear ft.) Special Collections and University Archives, W.E.B. Du Bois Library, University of Massachusetts Amherst Letters, photographs, engravings, and clippings compiled by George Thurber, agrostologist, horticultural writer, and editor of American Agriculturist from 1863 to 1885, and augmented by George Clark Woolson, father of Harry Thurber Woolson. Bulk of the collection is the nearly 1,000 letters written by 336 correspondents, primarily botanists and other scientists, including Asa Gray, Louis Agassiz, John Torrey, Frederick Law Olmsted, John James Audubon, Henry Ward Beecher, Jefferson Davis, Edward Payson Roe, Donald G. Mitchell, and George Brown Goode. English. Scope and Contents of the Collection

Letters, photographs, engravings, and clippings compiled by George Thurber, agrostologist, horticultural writer, and editor of American Agriculturist from 1863 to 1885, and augmented by George Clark Woolson, father of Harry Thurber Woolson. Bulk of the collection is the nearly 1,000 letters written by 336 correspondents, primarily botanists and other scientists, including Asa Gray, Louis Agassiz, John Torrey, Frederick Law Olmsted, John James Audubon, Henry Ward Beecher, Jefferson Davis, Edward Payson Roe, Donald G. Mitchell, and George Brown Goode. Letters are bound; binding done by Reimann.

The collection is open for research.

Preferred Citation

Cite as: Thurber-Woolson Botanical Collection (MS 65). Special Collections and University Archives, W.E.B. Du Bois Library, University of Massachusetts Amherst.

Acquired from Harry Thurber Woolson, 1911, 1919

Processed by Linda Seidman.

Search Terms Thurber, George. Woolson, George Clark. Woolson, George Clark. Gray, Asa, 1810-1888. Agassiz, Louis, 1807-1872. Torrey, John, 1796-1873. Olmsted, Frederick Law, 1822-1903. Audubon, John James, 1785-1851. Beecher, Henry Ward, 1813-1887. Davis, Jefferson, 1808-1889. Roe, Edward Payson, 1838-1888. Mitchell, Donald Grant, 1822-1908 Botany--United States. Thurber, George.