Library of the Gray Herbarium
SEMI-HISTORIC LETTERS - B
| Last Name | First Name | Dates | Amount | Notes | See Also | Birth and Death Dates |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Babcock | D. M. , Mrs. | 1927 | 1 | letter to Mrs. Babcock re: her gift of Wm. W. Merrill's (her father) herbarium | ||
| Babcock | Ernest Brown | 1915-1947 (in 2 folders) | 82 | Folder 1: 46 letters, 1928-1947 Folder 2: 36 letters, 1915-1927 |
1877-1954 | |
| Bachelot de la Pylaie | Auguste Jean Marie | See inventory in Archives Guide | Historic Letters file and Personal Papers inventory | 1786-1856 | ||
| Bacon | Anne Elizabeth | 1898-1916 | 12 | 1857- | ||
| Baehni | Charles | 1945-1963 | 52 | See Hochreutiner, Benedict Pierre (1873-1959) SH 2, Folder 2 | 1906-1964 | |
| Baenitz | Carl Gabriel | 1909-1911 | 3 | 1837-1913 | ||
| Bailey | Edward Munroe | 1907 | 1 | 1879- | ||
| Bailey | Ethel Zoe | See: Bailey, Liberty Hyde (1858-1954), SH 1; Folders 2-7 | 1889 | |||
| Bailey | Frederick Manson | 1895 and 1912 | 2 | 1827-1915 | ||
| Bailey | Irving Widmer | 1955-68 | 18 items | Contact Reference Librarian for information about items included | Personal Papers and I. W. Bailey inventory in Archives Guide | 1884-1967 |
| Bailey | Liberty Hyde | 1914-1948 | 480 | Please contact Reference Librarian for more specific information | Gray Herbarium Archives; Historic Letters database; L.H. Bailey, Walter Deane, Thomas Morong inventories in Archives Guide | 1858-1954 |
| Bailey | S. Waldo | 1924-1930 | 3 | |||
| Bailey | William Whitman | 1893-1913 | 96 | papers located in Gray Herbarium Archives; Historical Letters database; W.W. Bailey, Walter Deane, Sereno Watson inventories in Archives Guide | 1843-1914 | |
| Baillon | Henri Ernest | 1894 | 1 | Historic Letters database | 1827-1895 | |
| Bain | Samuel McCutchen | 1893-1895 | 5 | 1896-1919 | ||
| Baird | Viola (n'ee Brainerd) | 1933 | 1 | |||
| Baker | A. Latham | 191-1932 | 3 | includes 1 drawing | ||
| Baker | Charles Henry | 1918, 1921 | 2 | 1848- | ||
| Baker | Grace Bigelow | 1902-1904 | 5 | -1912 | ||
| Baker | Jessie Beal | 1926 | 1 | letter regards her father, William James Beal | ||
| Baker | John Gilbert | 1880-1895 | 5 | Historic Letters database | 1834-1920 | |
| Baker | Marcus | 1901 | 1 | 1849-1903 | ||
| Baker | Milo Samuel | 1907-1957 | 17 | includes 2 plant lists | 1868-1961 | |
| Baker | Richard Thomas | 1903-1911 | 3 | 1854-1941 | ||
| Balch | Francis N. | 1924-1925 | 3 | includes 1 letter (1924) by Rodney True | ||
| Baldaccu | Antonio | 1896 | 1 | postcard | 1867-1950 | |
| Baldwin | Hannah M. | William Baldwin inventory in Archives Guide | ||||
| Balwin | William | papers located in Gray Herbarium Archives; William Baldwin inventory in Archives Guide | 1779-1819 | |||
| Balfour | Issac Bayley, Sir | 1887-1921 | 6 | Historic Letters database | 1853-1922 | |
| Ball | Carleton Roy | 1897-1953 | 106 | includes 2 plant lists | 1873-1958 | |
| Ballard | S.J. | 1905-1921 | 6 | |||
| Ballou | Howard M. | 111 | includes labels from Joseph Francis Rock's collection; 4 clippings; 1 price list of Bishop Museum publications | 1866- | ||
| Ballou | Sidney M. | 1895 | 1 | 1870-1929 | ||
| Bang | M. | Plants of Bolivia | Archives Guide I, Plant List Box ii, tables of contents pg. 2 | |||
| Barber | Charles Alfred | 1893 | 1 | 1860-1933 | ||
| Barber | Marshall Albert | 1898-1923 | 21 | 1868-1953 | ||
| Barbey | William | 1904-1918 | 5 | includes death notice of William Barbey and Mrs. William Barbey (Caroline Boissier) | Historic Letters database; Autran, Eugene | 1842-1914 |
| Barbour | Thomas | 1912-1945 | 52 | includes clipping of review of book by Barbour with photo (1844); 1 letter (13 May 1942) moved from library, 7/84 | 1884-1946 | |
| Barker | Michael | 1895-1896 | 2 | |||
| Barnes | Charles Reid | Historic Letters database; Walter Deane inventory in Archives Guide | 1858-1910 | |||
| Barnes | Kate L. | Historic Letters database; George Edward Davenport inventory in Archives Guide | ||||
| Barnhart | John Hendley | 1896-1946 | 80 | 1871-1949 | ||
| Barratt | Joseph | Charles Alfred Weatherby inventory in Archives Guide | 1796-1882 | |||
| Barrell | Joseph | 1911-1915 | 10 | 1869-1919 | ||
| Barrett | Otis Warren | 1905 | 1 | 1872- | ||
| Barrett | R.L | 1904 | 2 | |||
| Barrows | John R. | 1900 | 2 | 1864- | ||
| Barry | Phillips | Vincent, Edith M. | 1880-1937 | |||
| Bartlett | David | Young, Evangeline W. | 1828-1912 | |||
| Bartlett | George Henry | 1904-1930 | 8 | 1856-1935 | ||
| Bartlett | H.F. | 1922 | 2 | |||
| Bartlett | Harley Harris | 1904-1952 | 176 | includes 3 plant lists; copy of application of Charles Piper Smith to National Research Council; memo for Committee on Scientific Othography; 1 letter by H. Monsley; 2 agreements regarding work at Gray Herbarium | Historic Letters database | 1886-1960 |
| Bartram | Edwin Bunting | 1909-1948 | 87 | 1878-1964 | ||
| Batalin | Alexander Feodorowicz | 1892-1896 | 8 | 1847-1896 | ||
| Batchelder | Charles Foster | 1909-1957 | 12 | includes 1925 letter with obiturary information for Timothy Otis Fuller; correspondence (1955-1957) with son, Charles F. Batchelder | 1856-1954 | |
| Bates | John Mallery, Rev. | 1918-1927 | 5 | Arthur Stanley Pease inventory in Archives Guide | 1846-1930 | |
| Baxter | Milton Stephen | 1895-1933 | 7 | 1856-1938 | ||
| Bay | Jens Christian Ballien | 1900-1908 | 7 | 1871-1962 | ||
| Beadle | Chauncey Delos | 1896-1936 | 42 | 1866- | ||
| Beal | William James | 1891-1921 | 33 | includes plant list | Historic Letters database; Baker, Jessie Beal | 1833-1924 |
| Beaman | John Homer | Rollins, Reed Clark | 1929- | |||
| Beattie | Rolla Kent | 1903-1948 | 15 | 1875- | ||
| Beauvard | Gustave | 1905-1926 | 11 | includes plant list | Huguenin, Mathilde | 1867-1942 |
| Bebb | Arthur E. | 1900, 1902 | 2 | |||
| Bebb | Michael Schuck | Henry Griswold Jesup, Thomas Morong, Walter Deane inventories in Archives Guide; Historic Letters database | 1833-1895 | |||
| Beccari | Odoardo | 1905-1910, 1920 | 3 | includes death notice | 1843-1920 | |
| Bechtel | Albert Reiff | 1924 | 1 | 1882- | ||
| Beck | Lewis Caleb | Thaddeus William Harris inventory in Archives Guide; Historic Letters database | 1798-1853 | |||
| Becker | Wilhelm | 1907-1929 | 15 | includes 1 letter (1929) by wife, Marie Becker | 1874-1928 | |
| Beguinot | Augusto | 1915-1933 | 6 | 1875-1940 | ||
| Beijerinck | Martinus Willem | includes circular for scientific works from Martinus Nijhoff | 1951-1931 | |||
| Belhatte | C. | 1904-1919 | 49 | all letters on behalf of Roland Napoleon Bonaparte | ||
| Bell | Albert Thomas | Bessey, Charles Edwin | 1866-1919 | |||
| Bemis | Earl Willson | 1924-1939 | 102 | includes 6 plant lists; 2 press releases; 2 drafts for press releases regarding gifts to Harvard; 2 letters about will; biography materials | Historic Letters database | 1866-1939 |
| Benedict | Helen | 1921-1922 | 2 | |||
| Benke | Hermann Conrad | Standley, Paul Carpenter | 1869-1946 | |||
| Benner | Winthrop E. | 1927 | 2 | |||
| Bennett | Arthur | Thomas Morong inventory in Archives Guide; Historic Letters database | 1843-1929 | |||
| Bent | Allen H. | 1908-1912 | 5 | 1867-1926 | ||
| Bent | Arthur E. | 1922-1938 | 3 | |||
| Bentley | Lloyd C. | 1927-1928 | 3 | |||
| Bergdolt | Ernst F. | Botanischen Institut der Universitat, Munich | 1902- | |||
| Bergen | Joseph Young | 1893-1915 | 9 | includes reprint of biographical article from Botanical Gazette | 1851-1917 | |
| Berger | Alwin | 1924-1929 | 5 | 1871-1931 | ||
| Bergstedt | J.A. | 1906 | 3 | |||
| Berlandier | Jean Louis | papers located in Gray Herbarium Archives; Jean Louis Berlandier inventory in Archives Guide | 1805(?)-1851 | |||
| Berry | Edward Wilber | 1895-1940 | 13 | 1875-1945 | ||
| Berry | Samuel Stillman | 1919, 1926 | 3 | 1887- | ||
| Bessey | Charles Edwin | 1985-1915 | 41 | includes review by Bessey of 7th edition of Gray's Manual; advertisement; 1898 letter by Albert Thomas Bell | Historic Letters database | 1845-1915 |
| Bessey | Ernst Athearn | 1911-1952 | 19 | Uphof, Johannes Cornelis Theodorus | 1877-1957 | |
| Best | George Newton | 1889-1902 | 11 | Historic Letters database | 1846-1926 | |
| Bethel | Ellsworth | 1908-1917 | 4 | 1863-1925 | ||
| Bicknell | Eugene Pintard | 1894-1924 | 43 | includes wedding announcement | 1859-1925 | |
| Bigelow | Henry B. | 1916-1917 | 2 | 1879-1967 | ||
| Bigelow | Jacob | papers located in Gray Herbarium Archives; Jacob Bigelow inventory in Archives Guide; Historic Letters database | 1786-1879 | |||
| Bigelow | Robert Payne | 1897-1928 | 9 | 1863- | ||
| Bigelow | William Sturgis | 1913-1922 | 23 | includes 1 clipping about abnormal rose | 1850-1926 | |
| Bijouwer | Jan Tijs Pieter | Byhouwer, Jan Tijs Pieter | ||||
| Billings | Frederick Horatio | 1901-1904 | 4 | 1869- | ||
| Billington | Cecil | 1931-1949 | 52 | includes obituary notice of Oscar E. Fischer (1946) | 1876-1950 | |
| Bingham | Caroline P. (n'ee Lord) | Thomas Morong inventory in Archives Guide; Historic Letters database | ||||
| Bishop | James Nathaniel | 1896-1905 | 40 | Historic Letters database | 1851-1906 | |
| Bissell | Charles Humphrey | 1895-1921 | 90 | 1857-1925 | ||
| Black | George Alexander | 1947-1952 | 3 | 1952 letter includes brief biographical sketch of Black | 1916-1957 | |
| Black | John McConnell | 1927-1932 | 16 | 1855-1951 | ||
| Blake | J. Henry | 1902 | 1 | |||
| Blake | Ralph S. | 1914 | 3 | |||
| Blake | Sidney Fay | 1910-1962 | 460 | includes 14 letters to, by, or about Doris H. Blake; 1 snapshot, obituaries, notes, poems; 3 plant list; 5 lists of additions to "Card Catalog"; 2 lists of descriptions of Compositae; wedding announcement; 2 drawings | Fernald, Merritt Lyndon; Benjamin Lincoln Robinson inventory in Archives Guide | 1892-1959 |
| Blake | W.R. | 1915 | 3 | |||
| Blake | William P. | 1903 | 3 | 1826-1910 | ||
| Blakeslee | Albert Francis | 1908-1950 | 20 | 1874-1954 | ||
| Blanding | E.M. | 1899 | 1 | |||
| Blankinship | Joseph William | 1895-1917 | 27 | 1862-1938 | ||
| Blaschka | Rudolph | Historic Letters database; Walter Deane inventory in Archives Guide | 1857-1939 | |||
| Blatchford | M.E. | 1895-1907 | 16 | |||
| Bliss | Lucy B. | 1911 | 1 | |||
| Block | Rudolph | 1927-1928 | 5 | |||
| Blomquist | Hugo Leander | 1922-1957 | 43 | 1888-1964 | ||
| Bloomer | Hiram G. | William Henry Brewer inventory in Archives Guide | 1821-1874 | |||
| Boardman | Louisa (Louise) | 1919-1927 | 8 | |||
| Bocher | Tyge Wittrock | Nannfeldt, John Axel | 1909- | |||
| Boissier | Caroline | Barbey, William | -1836 | |||
| Biovin | (Joseph Robert) Bernard | Charles Alfred Weatherby inventory in Archives Guide | ||||
| Bolander | Henry Nicholas | papers located in Gray Herbarium Archives; Historic Letters database; H.N. Bolander, William Henry Brewer inventory in Archives Guide | 1831-1897 | |||
| Bolus | Harry | 1904 | 2 | 1834-1911 | ||
| Bolus | L., Mrs. | 1928, 1930 | 2 | |||
| Bomhard | Miriam Lucile | 1937-1952 | 17 | 1898-1952 | ||
| Bonaparte | Roland Napoleon | Belhatte, C.; Heuvrard, Henri | 1858-1924 | |||
| Bonar | Lee | 1951, 1954 | 2 | 1891- | ||
| Boott | Francis | papers located in Gray Herbarium Archives; Historic Letters database; F. Boott, Wilkes Expedition inventory in Archives Guide | 1792-1863 | |||
| Boott | Kirk | 1920 | 1 | |||
| Boott | William | for autograph, see Gray Manual, Ed. 2, 1856, c.3 | Thomas Morong, artifacts in Archives Guide; Historic Letters database | 1805-1887 | ||
| Bornmuller | Joseph Friedrich Nicolaus | 1930-1938 | 10 | includes 1 plant list | 1862- | |
| Borodin | Dimitry N. | 1934 | 1 | |||
| Borsh | William and Sons | 1929 | 2 | |||
| Borza | Alexandru | 1927-1941 | 7 | 1887-1971 | ||
| Boss | Nich G. | Thaddeus William Harris inventory in Archives Guide | ||||
| Botteri | M. | Plants of Mexico | Archives Guide I, Plant List box II, tables of contents pg. 2 | 1808-1877 | ||
| Bowman | Isaiah | 1911-1942 | 36 | 1878-1950 | ||
| Bowman | Paul William | 1927-1931 | 6 | includes 1 plant list | 1897- | |
| Boyd | Louise Arner | 1932-1937 | 10 | 1887-1970 | ||
| Boyd | Lucy | 1934 | 2 | |||
| Boyer | Zetta F. | 1931-1935 | 6 | |||
| Boykin | Samuel | Stephen Elliott inventory in Archives Guide | 1786-1848 | |||
| Brace | John Pierce | Historic Letters database; Charles Alfred Weatherby inventory in Archives Guide | 1793-1872 | |||
| Bracelin | Nina Floy | 1930-1946 | 114 | includes 4 plant lists | Ynes Enriquetta Julietta Mexia inventory in Archives Guide | |
| Brackenridge | William Dunlop | Wilkes Expedition inventory in Archives Guide; Historic Letters database | 1810-1893 | |||
| Bradley | Cornelius Beach | 1928 | 4 | 1843-1936 | ||
| Bradley | Lucy M. | 1907 | 1 | |||
| Bradshaw | M.F. | 1902-1913 | 4 | |||
| Bragg | Laura Mary | 1913-1917 | 6 | 1881- | ||
| Brainerd | Ezra | 1903 | 1 | includes list of Thomas Wentworth Higginson's finds in Vermont, 1844 | Baird, Viola (nee Brainerd); Walter Deane and George G. Kennedy inventories, Plants Lists Box I in Archives Guide; Historic Letters database | 1844-1924 |
| Brainerd | Viola | Baird, Viola (nee Brainerd) | ||||
| Brand | August | 1904-1930 | 26 | 1863-1930 | ||
| Brandegee | Townshend Stith | George Edward Davenport inventory in Archives Guide | ||||
| Brass | Leonard John | 1953 | 1 | includes photo and obituary | papers located in Gray Herbarium Archives; Leonard John Brass inventory in Archives Guide | 1900-1971 |
| Braun | Emma Lucy | 1928-1964 | 70 | includes 2 plant lists; information about Joseph C. Frank; biographical sketch | 1889- | |
| Braun-Blanquet | Josias | 1922-1929 | 6 | 1884-1980 | ||
| Bravo-Hollis | Helia | 1936 | 1 | 1903- | ||
| Bray | William L. | 1895-1931 | 40 | Historic Letters database | 1865-1953 | |
| Breitung | August J. | 1952-1956 | 15 | includes 1 plant list | 1913- | |
| Brenckle | Jacob Frederic | 1937-1947 | 15 | 1875- | ||
| Brewer | William Henry | papers located in Gray Herbarium Archives; Historic Letters database; W.H. Brewer, Henry Nicholas Bolander inventories in Archives Guide | 1828-1910 | |||
| Brierley | William Broadhurst | 1934, 1937 | 2 | 1889-1963 | ||
| Brigham | Charles Brooks | 1898 | 1 | 1845-1903 | ||
| Brigham | Harry C. | 1908-1923 | 9 | |||
| Brigham | William Tufts | Horace Mann inventory in Archives Guide; Historic Letters database | 1841-1926 | |||
| Brinkman | Alfred Henry | 1922-1944 | 9 | includes 1924 letter by Edward Blanchard Chamberlain with hand-drawn map of Alberta | 1873-1945 | |
| Briquet | Esther | 1930 | 1 | |||
| Briquet | John Issac | Sprague, Thomas Archibald; Historic Letters database | 1870-1931 | |||
| Bristol | Bennet Beri | 1904 | 2 | 1868- | ||
| Bristol | Gertrude Rexford | 1915 | 2 | 1871-1930 | ||
| Bristol | Henry M. | 1926 | 2 | |||
| Brittain | John | 1901 | 1 | postcard | 1849- | |
| Britton | Elizabeth Gertrude (nee Knight) | James Franklin Collins, George Edward Davenport, George G. Kennedy, Thomas Morong inventories in Archives Guide; Historic Letters database | ||||
| Britton | Nathaniel Lord | 1919-1933 | 294 | includes 1 plant list | Historic Letters database; Thomas Morong inventory in Archives Guide | 1859-1934 |
| Britton | Wilton Everett | 1903-1910 | 6 | 1868-1939 | ||
| Brizicky | George Konstantine | 1960, 1968 | 6 | includes items pertaining to Harvard personnel records; biographical information; 1 record of specimens loaned by Yale to Gray Herbarium; handwritten note concerning death | 1901-1968 | |
| Broadhurst, Jean Alice | 1873-1954 | 1901-1909 | 6 | |||
| Broadway | Walter Elias | 1896-1934 | 93 | includes 3 sheets of notes; 11 plant lists; draft of introduction to "The Bromeliaceae of Trinidad and Tobago" | 1863-1935 | |
| Brockhaus' | F.A., Antiquarium | 1891 | 1 | |||
| Brown | Addison | 1899, 1911 | 2 | Historic Letters database | 1830-1913 | |
| Brown | Demarchus C. | Indiana State Library | ||||
| Brown | Ella Louise | Horr, Ella Louise (nee Brown) | 1889-1975 | |||
| Brown | Stewardson | 1895-1919 | 13 | includes 1898 letterby Whitmer Stone | 1867-1921 | |
| Brues | Charles Thomas | 1910, 1922 | 2 | 1879-1955 | ||
| Bruner | William Edward | 1925 | 2 | 1897- | ||
| Brunner | J. | Caswell, A.B. | ||||
| Bruton | F.A. | 1926-1929 | 20 | included mimeographed sheet on Flora of Newfoundland, 1927 | 1860-1929 | |
| Bryan | Kirk | 1928-1938 | 13 | 1888-1950 | ||
| Buchholz | John Theodore | 1923-1948 | 26 | includes 1 tally of AAAS questionnaire on program (1940) | 1888-1951 | |
| Buchtien | Otto | 1920-1935 | 18 | includes 1 plant list | ||
| Buijsman | Marten | 1892-1907 | 6 | |||
| Buitenzorg | Java | 1932 | 2 | Danser, Benedictus Hubertus; Docters Van Leeuwen, Willam Marius; Thompson, W.P.; Treub, Melchior | ||
| Burgess | Thornton Waldo | 1927 | 1 | Historic Letters database | 1874-1965 | |
| Burnham | Sue Mead | 1894-1895 | 3 | |||
| Burns | Helen H. | Davis, Helen H. Burns | ||||
| Burns | Vincent G. | 1916-1917 | 4 | includes 1 plant list | 1893- | |
| Burr | Freeman Foster | 1912-1916 | 3 | 1877- | ||
| Burt | Edward Angus | 1897-1922 | 17 | 1859-1939 | ||
| Burtt-Davy | Joseph | Davy, Joseph Burtt | ||||
| Buscalioni | Luigi | 1910-1928 | 5 | 1863-1954 | ||
| Buser | Robert | 1894, 1906 | 2 | 1857-1931 | ||
| Bush | Benjamin Franklin | 1902-1936 | 179 | includes a list of seeds; 1 plant list | Benjamin Lincoln Robinson inventory in Archives Guide | 1858-1937 |
| Bustos | Marcial R. Espinosa | 1927-1928 | 3 | 1874-1959 | ||
| Butler | George Dexter | 1909-1910 | 2 | 1850-1910 | ||
| Butler | Lois | Payson, Lois (nee Butler) | ||||
| Butters | Frederic King | 1910-1943 | 30 | includes note on "Characteristics of Minnesota specimens of Lithospermum caroliniense--L. croceum" (1936) | Youngken, Heber Wilkinson | 1878-1945 |
| Buttrick | Ernest G. | 1895-1925 | 11 | |||
| Buysman | Marten | Buijsman, Marten | ||||
| Bygden | L. | 1906-1908 | 3 | 1844- | ||
| Byhouwer | Jan Tijs Pieter | 1927-1928 | 3 | 1898-1938 | ||
| Byington | Stephen T. | 1894 | 1 | |||
| Byrd | R.E. | 1932 | 1 |
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